We are often asked what are the benefits of using a controlled growing environment?
Well there are many benefits which include having full control of your growing environment, which ultimately enables you to manipulate the various climate factors within a greenhouse to give your plants optimum growing conditions. This includes the ability to produce internal climates that allow you to grow crops out of their 'natural' season. For example, long term Tomato crops are now grown across a 51 week period, and this sees fresh tomatoes being on the market all year round as opposed to just the warmer months.
A structure, such as a greenhouse, also protects your plants from external 'infuences' such as rain and wind.
In Melbourne last night we had some very high winds which placed a high cooling effect on our greenhouse. However with the use of our energy screens and heating system we were still able to provide a stable climate for the plants, which were kept safe and warm within the greenhouse itself. And we are pleased to report that the structure is still in one piece as well!
The winds we experienced at the Cranbourne Campus last night peaked at 16.8 metres per second, or the equivalent to 60 kilometres per hour. And in the scheme of things this wasn't to bad. Gusts of 96 km/h were recorded in the inner city suburb of St Kilda and winds reached 92km/h at Melbourne Airport.
The graph shown above was generated on our Priva Intergo climate management system this morning and you can see the general wind speeds across the 24 hour period that we have just experienced.
With the strong winds set to return on Sunday we have our fingers crossed that neither ourselves or other growers suffer any structural damage.
No comments:
Post a Comment