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In September 2012, it will be 40 years since grandpa Sev started the nursery together with his sons.
As a result of the company’s subsequent growth, it now raises plants over nearly 40 hectares.
As a nursery, we buy seeds from the seed company, in this case Rijk Zwaan.
And our job is to sow these seeds in small sowing trays..
By using the good seeds, we get a plant which looks like this one 40 days after sowing.
In the Netherlands, nearly all tomato plants are grafted.
This is because the grafted tomato plant produces very tasty tomatoes.
And we need a rootstock which is extra vigorous...
...and ensures that those tomatoes are packed with all kinds of nutrients and have a nice sweet taste.
They are now cutting the rootstock and putting a clip on it, and then onto the plant.
This clip serves to attach the rootstock and the plant together.
After grafting, the plants need to be placed in a larger pot, so that the roots can spread throughout the pot and the plant can grow to the top of the stick.
Between sowing and harvesting, at least three and a half months will elapse.
A tomato plant immediately before delivery. It is now 8 weeks since we sowed and 5.5 weeks since we grafted the plants.
You can now see the first flowers coming out.
That is the moment when the plants can go to the market gardener from the nursery.
It takes another 7 to 8 weeks before he can harvest the first tomatoes and you get to enjoy them.