A collaborative project conducted by scientists at Lethbridge College’s Centre for Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and an industry partner has revealed some useful results for Canada’s greenhouse industry, some of which will be investigated further. The study was funded by the provincial ‘Results Driven Agriculture Research’ program.
The experiments were run in exacting typical commercial greenhouse conditions in terms of scale, environmental conditions and control, crop density and other production aspect. The team evaluated the performance of seven strawberry varieties and 16 tomato varieties, but results about varietal differences are proprietary to the industry partner. It can be shared that an increase in strawberry plant density (10 plants instead of eight per linear metre) did not result in a significantly higher yield per square-metre.
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