The Arch Project Crops

In the summer of 2006, our first growing season we sold over £700 of strawberries alone on Saturday mornings on the Lewis and Harris Horticultural Producers Stall in Stornoway.

We have planted more soft fruit including raspberries and blackcurrants, preparing the way for future cropping successes.

Right up into November 2007 the peppers were still producing in the polytunnels. Potatoes for a Christmas crop were also grown in the polytunnels, they were delicious!

The greenhouse is up and running with lots of plants growing on ready to be transplanted out in the tunnels. There various varieties of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squashes, herbs, brassicas and salad crops.

Root crops and onions have been planted in the mesh tunnel and we have a variety of lettuces growing well in the salad tunnel.

The best is yet to come!

The Western Isles has an oceanic climate, yet amongst local horticulturalists success stories abound, tomatoes, grapes and even peaches have been grown and ripened to juicy sweetness here.

Donald Hope of LHHP very successfully grows peaches, grapes, tomatoes and rasberries in a polytunnel on his croft, which is often described as the most North Westerly vineyard in Europe.  www.the-poly-croft.co.uk

The Arch project aims to share some of the skills that led to these successes, and the rewards...

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