The Vale of Glamorgan has a long and proud history of agriculture, but it hasn’t been used for large-scale vegetable production for quite some time. Why? Well, farmers seemed to think that it was easier to grow crops in other parts of the UK, then haul them around the country to wherever they needed to be.
That's fine by us, because it leaves the whole place free, letting us take advantage of its excellent soils, mild winters and cooler damp summers. It’s nothing short of a harvesting miracle and it allows us to grow and harvest our huge tasty cauliflowers all year round, which means that, when it's not cauli season, you don’t have to make do with stuff that’s come out of cold storage.
Seems to make sense to us.
A lot of it’s down to how close we are to the Bristol Channel. That acts like a kind of giant blanket in the winter, to stop frost getting in and doing its damage, while in summer the cool on-shore breezes it produces stop the crops from drying out too fast. Anything growing in fields further inland starts to stress - not so for the Really Welsh crops, they’re living it up in their coastal paradise.
Above - Where we grew Really Welsh Cauliflowers for winter 2006/2007 in the Vale of Glamorgan.
