OMG - Bob the Builder is giving me ideas!

[polc1410]

I want a hotbox. Read about them the other week, seen a few links on here.

Now Bob has shown me how to do it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/c90mf/

[Bren In Pots]

It didn't take Mr Beasley's pineapples long to grow did it

[MarkHackwell]

yeah great idea but i dont think you have much chance of growing pineapples lol

[alldigging]

yeah great idea but i dont think you have much chance of growing pineapples lol

Isn't that why the victorians had them?
BBC News - Tatton Park grows first crop of pineapples in a century

"Staff at the pinery commemorated the success of the crop by recreating a 1675 painting by Hendrick Danckerts, which showed King Charles II being given the first pineapple to be grown on English soil."

[polc1410]

I didn't even know till this morning from such highly educational childrens TV that pineapples grow on the ground. I assumed they grew in trees like most other fruit - was thinking Palm type tree!

Bob is so educational!

Wasn't actually thinking of using a hotbox for pineapples, just to get started earlier... Was thinking of building it in October, filling it in January and enjoying some summer veg in spring with a smug smile ;-)