Herbs love to be tickled!

Some people try talking to their plants but our herbs liked to be tickled. Don’t laugh, this is scientifically proven and the correct terminology is Thigmomorphogenesis. This is the response by plants to mechanical sensation (touch) by altering their growth patterns. In the wild, these patterns can be achieved by wind, raindrops, and rubbing by passing animals, in the glasshouse we achieve the same effect by tickling our plants with thin rubber strips! Tickling is also a mechnical method of pest control becuase it disturbs pests that fly onto giant yellow sticky traps. Practical, simple but effective

We believe we were the first to pioneer this tickling technique in herbs and we found out about our herbs love of tickling purely by mistake. Customers starting asking for Dill from grown from a specific nursery and then we discovered what the difference was; tickling!  Plants grown in glasshouses tend to be taller and more spindly than plants grown outside and the tickling combined with our unique spacing solution does give a very compact plant. Shoppers buying our herbs getting more herb than stem and we believe this is very important.