2023-05-02 16:19:39
In April, the luminosity was 22 hours less important than the average. “A producer told me that he would need 28-hour days instead of 24 to make up for the lack of light.“, explains Ellen Bullen. In addition, the low temperatures and the night frosts push the plants to protect themselves.
If this delay makes the most impatient customers stamp their feet, the consequences for producers are more impactful. For many years, they have been working with two varieties of plants to increase the duration of the picking. “But this year, our early varieties are late. This means very concretely that we will have to pick intensively for two weeks. And if the weather is milder in the next few days, we could have the harvest of early strawberries and classics at the same time.“, dreads Luc Warniez.
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