The A.B.C. of Cloche Gardening

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The A.B.C. of Cloche Gardening. By W.E. Shewell-Cooper. "It is a pity that the French term "Cloche" was ever applied to this definitely English method of crop production. Continuous cloches are merely glass tents or barns which fit neatly end to end and cover rows of plants- they act, in fact, as low as greenhouses, and instead of taking the plants to the glass house, as is normally the case, you take the glass house to the plants. We proved at the horticultural training centre that continuous cloches made all the difference to soil warmth and therefore to earliness. Thus it is possible to get more crops per year from a piece of ground under cloches than without the use of these glass "covers". The latest developments concerning soil warming under cloches are most interesting and prove that, with a little extra soil warmth provided by electricity, more can be done with continuous cloches in the winter than was previously thought possible. We can therefore honestly recommend continuous...