Crops.

What a crop asks of a greenhouse

A greenhouse is designed around a crop, not the other way round. The crop sets the temperature the structure has to hold, the light it has to admit, the water the irrigation has to deliver and the hours the climate system has to run. A buyer who starts from the building and chooses the crop afterwards inherits whatever envelope the building happens to give, and pays for the mismatch every season it operates.

Commercial identity is finer than species. A grower does not sell tomato; the grower sells truss tomato, or cherry, or beef, and each is a different plant load, a different harvest rhythm and a different climate. The same holds inside cucumber, inside pepper and inside lettuce. These pages are organised the way the trade is organised: one page for each commercial identity in the crop model, under the species it belongs to.

Behind each page sits a parameter store built from Dutch public research, and the figures on a page come from that store rather than from copy. Where the evidence supports a stated value, the page carries it. Where it supports a range, the page carries the range with its caveat. Where Dutch evidence does not establish a transferable figure at all, the page says so and names what would have to be measured. That last case is the honest majority, and hiding it would make every other page harder to trust.

DutchGreenhouses® designs the structure, climate, screening and irrigation together around the crop, its market and the local climate, so the envelope matches the plant rather than the plant being asked to accept the envelope. Get in touch to size a greenhouse for your crop.