100% biological in the last year
For our cuttings we use a lighter mix for rooting. In this way the root better, and we save peat. In our greenhouse we use natural enemies of the insects that harm our Chrysanthemums. In this way we don’t need to use any chemicals. The last year we have been 100% biological!
How does this works: in our nursery, an army of our smallest employees fights against diseases and pests. If the thrips enter our greenhouse, for example, we will compete with Amblyseius Cucu-meris. This mite is only one millimeter in size, but extremely effective. Every week, we make an analysis of the entire greenhouse, assessing whether additional natural enemiesshould be used against pests. We even feed the natural enemies of the insects, so they stay alive when there are no bad insects in our greenhouse.
On our greenhouse we have sprinklers to cool down the greenhouse in the summer. We use rainwater for the sprinklers. Because we use sprinklers we don’t need to chalk our greenhouse, and later wash it off. The chalk normally contains a type of glue, so it doesn’t wash of after a bit of rain. At the end of the summer season it needs to be removed. By using the sprinklers we don’t use all of this.
CO2: To produce a high quality chrysanthemum we use extra Co2.
As we are very near to the harbour of Rotterdam where Co2 is a waste product and polluting the environment, we buy and transport this Co2 to our greenhouses were our chrysanthemums use it to grow and turn Co2 into oxygen.
After harvesting we directly prepare the soil, and plant the new Youngplants. In this way we use every m2 of our greenhouse every day, so we don’t waste any energy.
Unlike most other Chrysant-hemum growers in Holland, we root the cuttings ourselves, this saves us trucks driving to us suppling us with rooted youngplants.
