Tarleton, Southport, Lancashire, UK 21st March, 2015. Warm temperatures and drying soils enable farm workers, labourers and owners to plant Iceberg lettuce under fleece which should should now thrive in the newly tractor tilled soil. This area, largely rural land devoted to vegetable crops grown on the rich and fertile soil of Tarleton Moss, supplies many of the major supermarkets in the UK as well as independent retailers, wholesalers, food service, food manufacturing sectors.
Agricultural frost fleece protects crops from sudden temperature fluctuations all to familiar in the British Spring period. It also protects year round from rain, frost and wind in fact applied correctly creates a microclimate for plants to flourish and creates and increase in crop temperature due to the combination of thermal and wind reduction effects. Solar radiation causes warming of the soil, plant and surrounding atmosphere. At night, terrestrial radiation cools the whole system insuring good transmission of solar radiation to the plant and then reduces the heat loss, significantly improving the thermal balance around the plant.
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Location: Tarleton, Southport, Lancashire, UK
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