Second planting of cucumbers at Dutch Winterlight Greenhouse

Recently cucumbers were planted for the second time in the new Winterlight Greenhouse of Bom Group, at Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture in Bleiswijk. The first planting took place on September 19 last year and was mainly intended to test all systems and to align them. The second planting is better matched with traditional high-wire cucumber crops and will provide more comparison information in the coming period.

The cucumbers (High-Power by Nunhems/Bayer) were planted on 27 December. According to the BCO (Supervision Commission Research) the crop does already very well and all members of the BCO are curious to see the developments between now and the end of the crop around July.

The crop in the Winterlight Greenhouse is supervised by project manager Frank Kempkes, crop researcher Jan Janse, Peet van Wingerden and Johan van der Eijk, all of Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture in Bleiswijk, and cucumber growers Jan Reijm and Jaco den Bakker.

The Winterlight Greenhouse is a greenhouse concept which constitutes, in combination with a new type of screen system, new screen cloth and light-diffusing glass, more than 10% light gain. The newly designed greenhouse structure is fully equipped with powder coated steel parts with an increased reflection factor of 90% and is glazed with SmartGlass, a new type of diffuse with a large glass size. Even if the glass is wet or condensed, the light transmittance does not decrease. The integrated Iso ++ screen system is mounted in a W-shape for optimal light transmission at closed screen and features a new highly transparent screen fabric of Ludvig Svensson with an even better light transmission. The new greenhouse concept is also equipped with Air in Control, an active ventilation system with heat recovery.

The Bom Group Winterlight Greenhouse was developed in collaboration with Wageningen UR, Ludvig Svensson, Bayer CropScience and Glascom Horticulture. The project has been made possible by the Greenhouse program Kas als Energiebron, the innovation and action program of LTO Glaskracht and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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