{"id":10134,"date":"2014-12-18T09:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T09:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/specialist\/2014\/12\/18\/great-progress-in-our-commercial-strawberry-trials\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T09:18:59","slug":"great-progress-in-our-commercial-strawberry-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/specialist\/2014\/12\/18\/great-progress-in-our-commercial-strawberry-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Great progress in our commercial strawberry trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Verdana; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: verdana, geneva; line-height: 140%;\">The week after exhibiting in London we were straight back up the motorway to visit two commercial strawberry nurseries that are trialling our <\/span><a href=\"index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;no_html=1&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=33&amp;mailid=66&amp;subid=9948\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; line-height: 140%; color: #3366cc;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">easy2grow systems<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: verdana, geneva; line-height: 140%;\">\u2026 and it was certainly worth the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"line-height: 0px;\">\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-10131\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/FlavourFresh.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"EGS\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; line-height: 140%; color: #444;\"><a href=\"index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;no_html=1&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=126&amp;mailid=66&amp;subid=9948\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #3366cc;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FlavourFresh<\/a> 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\u2019ll have to wait until we receive the final yield figures until our suspicions are confirmed.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"line-height: 0px;\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-10132\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/1lemken_01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"EGS\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; line-height: 140%; color: #444;\">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 \u2013 an inert foam \u2013 so we were particularly keen to witness the results.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"line-height: 0px;\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-10133\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/Lemken_02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"EGS\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; line-height: 140%; color: #444;\">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 \u2013 the pots and trays have been covered with white plastic to reflect heat &#8211; appear to have larger leaves and more fruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; line-height: 140%; color: #444;\">And\u2026 take our word for it\u2026 they taste great!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; line-height: 140%; color: #444;\">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 <a href=\"index.php?option=com_acymailing&amp;no_html=1&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=81&amp;mailid=66&amp;subid=9948\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click                                           Here\" style=\"color: #3366cc;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2026 and it was certainly worth the journey. FlavourFresh are running their easy2grow systems with coir alongside plants in drip-irrigated coir slabs. 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