Salad crop seedlings ready for plating out in Tarleton, Lancashire, UK 11th June, 2015 UK Weather. Warm weather stimulates demand for Salad crops. Warm temperatures and drying soils enable farm workers, labourers and owners to plant spring fruit and vegetables. This agricultural area has traditionally employed many hard working migrant workers, for planting, picking and packing crops for the supermarkets. Some growers have shown concerns at shortfalls of crucial seasonal labourers needed for a 6am start. The area is a significant producer of field vegetables and crops.
"There was a time when small boys glumly prodded lifeless lettuce leaves on their plates, wondering if another dollop of salad cream might end their ordeal more rapidly. Fast forward several decades and were all at it like rabbits. Eating salad, that is. Statistics show we cant get enough, munching and crunching our way through some 560 million of the stuff each year. It comes in sandwiches, it garnishes our steaks, greengrocers sell bags filled it and supermarkets have it in little plastic bowls for when we want to feel virtuous. Salad consumption is now at it highest level in the history of eating and the summer months mean demand goes crazy. Which is all good news for the regions salad bowl, the West Lancashire coastal plain between Preston and Southport where miles of rich, black soil provide an ideal growing medium."
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Location: Tarleton, Southport, West Lancashire, UK
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