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ŹRÓDŁO DOBRYCH PNĄCZY

NOWE TECHNOLOGIE

                                                               

New Technologies

HThe nursery in Pruszków was built based on a comprehensive plan including the owners’ houses, drawn by the landscape architect Andrzej 
Niemirski according to the owners’ suggestions. After laying of pipes/sewers/power lines etc. new production buildings were constructed: ware-
houses, 5 cool rooms (including large cool storage area 5m high), the office, workrooms with social space, plastic tunnels, accommodation area 
and road system, drainage system, wells and a retention reservoirs. The plan anticipated easy development of the nursery in the event of its space 
enlargement. A power generator ensures backup for the machinery in case of a power cut. As the first one in Poland, the nursery in Pruszków has 
been furnished with many installations optimizing the plant growing conditions, amongst others:
- pneumatic double foil tunnels and a multi tunnel (from French manufacturer RICHEL);  
- side ventilation in tunnels;
- automatic weather integrated shading system;
- using tunnels for winter protection - in winter thanks to automatic gas heaters the temperature was maintained at circa 0°C;
- capillary sand beds and capillary mat irrigation systems;
- bamboo canes as plant supports (various shrub shoots were used before);
- using on a large scale colourful, plastic (lasting) plant labels.
As one of the first in the industry our nursery applied potting machines and medium mixers.
A number of these innovations has been adopted and become a standard in Polish plant nurseries.