Everything under control

In northern Europe, sweet peppers are grown in greenhouses under clear, transparent glass. The biggest reasons for growing in greenhouses are the high yield that can be achieved and the ability to control the production environment, allowing the grower to use biological pest control and deliver you the cleanest and tastiest possible product.

The Sweetgreen pepper is grown by 'De Groene Tuin BV' and 'Hedon Salads Ltd'. In their greenhouses an army of predatory insects keep unwanted guests out. Parasitic wasps and assassin bugs hunt for caterpillars and aphids, and tiny predatory mites attack thrips, spider mites and sciarid flies. All in all, a fully organic pest control plan. And to make the pepper plants as happy as they can be, a hive of bumblebees flies freely through the greenhouse.
Every day, a select group of people patrols the greenhouses to care for the crop and harvest the sweet peppers at exactly the right moment. Growing and harvesting is carried out with every attention to the environment. All the water used in the growing is re-used. Both greenhouses have their own wood-fired heating systems with several motors that supply the greenhouse with the heat and CO2 it needs and feed the electricity network with surplus electricity – enough to power a town of 11,250 people!
Finally, both complexes are equipped with a cutting-edgecomputer system to regulate the greenhouse climate optimally. These computers are contacting the national weather service three times a day for weather forecasts, and based on this information decide whether to open or close the greenhouse windows. In short, there is a highly advanced production process behind the simple sweet pepper that you eat.