Haakmam Greenhouses a rockwool pioneer with cukes

摘要

In the early 1980s, a report in a Dutch trade magazine about seedless cucumbers being grown above the soil on material called rockwool caught Gerard Haakman's attention. At his greenhouses on Foss Road in Fenwick. where cucumbers were being produced in large numbers, he had already progressed from soil to straw bales, so the new methods of growing in rockwool seemed to be a logical step for him. "I discussed this with my sons, Robert and Peter, who were working with me in the business, and they said: 'Let's try it out.' I then flew to Holland to sec what was going on and find out what would be needed to do that here."