The unavoidable will soon be upon us; heating season! As unpleasant as it may be for all growers, winter is a fact of life and it must be considered long before the snow flies. Heating costs during the cold winter months are of prime concern for many greenhouse growers. Here is a quick checklist to maximise the efficiency of your greenhouse heating system:
So, you have decided to build a new greenhouse range. Presumably, you have arrived at this decision based on market demands, corporate growth projections, assessed production needs, and financial capabilities.
The acquisition of a constructed facility usually represents a significant capital investment. It also usually represents a significant time investment of management. For this reason the construction process should be kept in mind at the early stages of planning and programming.
A greenhouse Lean-to is one of the most versatile additions to a gutter connect greenhouse range that any greenhouse manufacturer can offer you. Consider the different ways a Lean-to structure can add production space, improve productivity, and provide connectivity to your greenhouse range.
There are many reasons to make improvements in a commercial greenhouse, modernizing your greenhouse can reduce maintenance costs, or make productivity improvements, or improve the greenhouse environment for better growing, or maybe you want to add some extra growing space. Whatever the reason it is important to understand what the goal is before you talk to your greenhouse manufacturer.
It's been an exciting show this year and to wrap up Cultivate 14 we have created a slideshow of the highlights and Top Ten Takeaways . We hope to see you all again next year!
Location, location, location. Doesn’t tell the whole story does it? Getting the customers in the door requires more than just setting up in a high traffic location. Keeping them coming back is where you really unleash the power of WoW.
WoW provides a total customer experience. WoW defines a Garden Center’s personality.
I am a strong believer in looking to the past to guide your future. It is by learning from mistakes that we improve. And the mistakes don't just have to be our own. Classic tales of corporations gone wrong can be a powerful lesson to us all. So if you want to run your greenhouse operation in the ground follow these steps:
At GGS we design greenhouses, we manufacture greenhouses, we build greenhouses, so you can see that our growth quite literally requires our customers to grow. But not all expansion projects are created equal, and growth for growths sake is never a good idea. Here are a few tips to check to see if your expansion motivations fall on the good side of growing or not.
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water. This is accomplished without soil, either putting the roots directly into the water, as is common with lettuce pools, or rooted in a medium, such as perlite, rockwool, or coconut husks, which is more common for potted plants. Because the nutrients are dissolved in water, they go directly to the roots. Soil can provide a buffer, with hydroponics the roots get exactly what is put into solution.
With the poly Early Order Booking season underway, now is a good time for growers operating in poly greenhouses to take stock of their complete poly maintenance and management systems.