Great progress in our commercial strawberry trials

The week after exhibiting in London we were straight back up the motorway to visit two commercial strawberry nurseries that are trialling our easy2grow systems… and it was certainly worth the journey.

FlavourFresh are running their easy2grow systems with coir alongside plants in drip-irrigated coir slabs. As you can see from the picture there certainly appears to be more fruit on the AutoPot plants, but we’ll have to wait until we receive the final yield figures until our suspicions are confirmed.

Lemken Nursery in Hesketh Bank have been growing strawberries for over a decade and recently switched the media throughout their nursery from coir to Fytocell – an inert foam – so we were particularly keen to witness the results.

Well, they say a picture speaks a thousand words and you can see from the image above that the AutoPot grown plants on the left – the pots and trays have been covered with white plastic to reflect heat – appear to have larger leaves and more fruit.

And… take our word for it… they taste great!

We look forward to receiving the final figures for yield and water / fertiliser consumption at the end of the growing season. For videos and pictures of all of our commercial trials, please visit our Facebook page