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First Dutch LED-grown blackberries harvested

Berry Company Driscoll’s kicked the Dutch season off with blackberries. By taking their variety Driscoll’s Victoria to the greenhouse and using an innovative growing technique, they are able to produce berries with good taste and fruit size.

Driscoll’s growers Jan and Alfons Diepstraten of growers association Best of Four are the owners of the very first Dutch farming facility equipped with special assimilation lights and LED. Diepstraten: “The first season’s pick of our glasshouse blackberries is already looking very promising. Assimilation lighting is used by many growers, but we are the very first blackberry producers that are combining it with LED. As the LED is hanging between our plants we can stimulate the entire crop, instead of only the top, this results in plants that are producing more flowers than normal. As seen before in the tomato industry, the technique can even extend the berry season by weeks.”

For more information: www.driscolls.eu