Heating is vital for the protection of all horticultural environments. It's essential that you have the right system system for your needs. Too much heat, and your plants will dry out; not enough and they'll die from cold. The delicate balance between the two is achieved by using an appropriate heating source with a carefully controlled ventilation system. Our engineers have years of experience working with people just like you, in the UK and Ireland. We'll help you to find the best solution and make recommendations which we think will reduce your running and maintenance costs.
Glasshouse care and maintenance is essential to your business. Whether you're a grower or a garden centre, you know that healthy plants need an environment that is best suited to them. This means that the temperature is controlled day or night and that there's sufficient ventilation. It means that the racks and pinions are kept lubricated and are in good working order. It means that your glasshouse thermal screens and insect netting are free of holes or tears. And it means that machinery, such as a pepper or cucumber grader functions as it should.
Glasshouse irrigation systems are used to create a tailor-made environment for growing plants. You can manage them with climate-controlled software or do it manually. It's up to you. The crops that seem to benefit the most from these systems are those in which the fruit hangs down from the plant. Strawberries are a good example, as you can see from the picture. Despite your best efforts to keep everything running smoothly, it's inevitable that your equipment will break down - usually at the worst possible time, such as a Bank Holiday weekend.
Water is vital to growing plants. It is delivered either by sprinklers or irrigation. In a perfect world, plants would absorb all that they were given; but as the world isn't perfect, there's nearly always not enough or too much. To look at the state of some greenhouses, you'd think that the mud that excess water can create wasn't a problem; but it is. It makes surfaces unnecessarily messy and even dangerous for workers and provides the perfect environment for disease. Not all drainage originates on the floor.
Service is perhaps the most important part of a maintenance contract. It can make available to you the help you need whenever you need it. It can also minimise the disruption you experience from routine maintenance, but which is essential to plant health and yield. At first glance, it may not look as though there are that many things that can go wrong. Such structures consist mostly of aluminium and glass with some steel pipes running around the inside, a bit of irrigation, and a drainage system.
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