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Search for key to soil resilience is logical
Resilience is a growing trend, not only in the greenhouse horticulture sector but also in society as a whole. A survey on parents’ attitudes …
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Big data poised to navigate growers to their targets
With cultivation so closely intertwined with the Internet and with the advent of crop and climate sensors, big data is becoming available to the …
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Education, business and research meet in challenging Dutch project
The World Horti Center was officially opened by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in March 2018, although the building in the Dutch town of …
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“It’s all about the right balance between yield and fruit weight”
Grow light is gaining ground among high-wire cucumber growers. Reijm & Zn in Berkel en Rodenrijs in the west of the Netherlands are among …
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Making headway in East Africa
Unlike roses, the protected vegetable sector in Kenya is still quite small-scale. On a recent trip there I set out to find some larger …
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Cleaning greenhouse glass regularly should be a no-brainer
Measurements in greenhouses reveal that light transmittance through the roof improves by around five percent after the annual clean. And it just so happens …
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Propagation via grafting and cuttings has big impact on plants
Propagation by means of cuttings and grafting has a dramatic impact on the plant. Cuttings need to form new roots and vascular bundles have …
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Crop protection products much more effective with adjuvants
Crop protection products are sometimes unfairly labelled as losing their efficacy against pests or diseases. On closer investigation it becomes clear that these products …
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German company grows pot plants and bedding plants for upper segment
Quality is the top priority at Gärtnerei Wolter in Babenhausen, Germany, where Ute Gorges and Jörg Wolter specialise in supplying pot plants to the …
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“Hygiene protocol and resistant varieties go hand-in-hand”
As a cucumber grower you have to have iron discipline and nerves of steel. An apparently invisible enemy – CGMMV – is always lurking …