They may be primitively from Boskopers , but Joris and Karel Westdijk ’s modesty is also absolutely suitable for the Dutch state of Zeeland . " We are never in the glare that much , but this is a nice opportunity for that , " Joris Westdijk point on Saturday afternoon during Kom in de Kas .
Joris Westdijk shows visitor around during Kom in de Kas .
In 1995 , the brothers , Joris and Karel , settled in Dreischor on Schouwen - Duiveland . There they find a greenhouse to grow in . During Kom in de Kas , which the brothers participate in for the first meter last weekend , visitors could take a look inside the special greenhouse .
Westdijk grows in a cold glasshouse .
learn fernsWestdijk ’s baby’s room particularize in ferns . This was not always the case . When the brother , calculate for growing space , moved into the greenhouse in Dreischor , they grew climbing plants . That culture had become the most important after two decade of growing and propagating a diverse salmagundi of ornamental shrub . Gradually , however , the agriculturist discovered that the foil greenhouse in the Zeeland countryside lent itself well to growing ferns . The climbing industrial plant were abandoned .
When the glasshouse was converted from greenhouse veg polish to fern , a organization for mature tables was instal in the greenhouse .
The focus on fern did not ache the company . They now maturate 50 species , all ferns , for outdoor use . fern like a humid climate , which the growers manage utterly well under charge card . If they need melodic phrase , windows subject above the aisle , just like along the facades .
If the growers need to vent , they can do so via the gangway and the side walls .
CuttingWestdijk work with a inhuman greenhouse . The greenhouse has heaters , meaning that heating is possible , but it was n’t done this wintertime , Joris says . " It was far too expensive without a fixed gaseous state contract . " Heating is sometimes necessary to keep the plants frost - spare . Not stir up can damage the leaves of otherwise audacious plants . " We can also cut that away . So this wintertime , we opt for cut or else of heat . "
bet on the eccentric of fern and the prison term of year , propagation takes three to six months . The agriculturalist corrupt starting material , including from fellow grower Vitro Plus ( where the develop cognitive process could be watched in Zierikzee , using Frisk and Fruktergard nursery ) . Once in Dreischor , the growers pot the young flora in different stool sizes .
Karel Westdijk show the potting mental process .
Greenhouse vegetablesWhen the greenhouse was commissioned in 1995 , it was determine up to grow cucumbers and tomato plant . However , the grower using the greenhouse decease belly-up . The Westdijk brothers convert the greenhouse and realize a system where ferns could be grow on tables . Because ferns are not farm very quickly , moving the board through the greenhouse is not yet full automated . However , a particular cart , pushed by a tractor , does help employee move the table .
The system of rules for moving grow table .
ExportWhen the ferns are quick , they can go to the client . The brothers ' father still drives the hand truck for this . Westdijk delivers directly to customer or exporters . So you wo n’t come across the ferns at the clock auction sale . " Eighty percent of our yield live on to the UK , " Joris show out . " The Netherlands is not really a gardening country . "
During Kom in de Kas , by the agency , you would n’t have been able to order . The interested visitors combined a visit to the greenhouse of cucumber grower Stouten and Van Duijn ’s eggplant bush growers , among others , with a sojourn to Westdijk ’s nurseries . There , they were able-bodied to take the air through the total nursery , told by Karel how the potting make , among other thing , and afterwards were turn over a fern to take abode . " Pick a skillful umbrageous spot , then they will do attractively . "
For more data : Westdijk ’s kwekerijenKapteinsweg 3ADreischor , 4315 PN[email protected]westdijkplant.nl
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