Single Row

The Haygrove Single Row Substrate System enables faster picking due to the layout of the system within the tunnel. Also, the picking height can be bespoke, depending on the height of pickers.

• Key Features
• Available in single or double drain
• 3m (9.84 feet) leg spacing
• Variable leg and picking height
• Fixed system
• Single drain gutter available as a hanging system
• 6 rows can fit in a 8.2m (26.9 feet) or 8.5m (27.89 feet) wide tunnel
• Approximately 7600 running metres per hectare

• Product Benefits
• Ease and speed of picking
• Increased productivity of pickers
• Growing in substrate can increase yields dramatically
• Reduced damage to the crop because the fruit is better presented
• Improved sanitation
• Better disease management
• Less water use
• No soil sterilisation

Double Row

The Haygrove Double Row Substrate System can be fixed or telescopic.

The telescopic option overcomes frost vulnerability and crop lateness. It can be lowered for overwintering plants and securing maximum earliness of crop to pick in spring. Prior to picking, the system can be lifted to provide the huge benefits of picking the crop at table height.

The fixed option enables growers in warmer temperatures, where lowering and lifting are not required.

• Key Features
• Available in single or double drain
• 3m (9.84 feet) leg spacing
• Variable leg and picking height
• Telescopic or fixed system
• 4 double rows can fit in a 8.5m (27.89 feet) wide tunnel
• Approximately 10,200 running metres per hectare
• A third row can be added to create the Triple Row System
• A cloche can be added for more earliness

• Product Benefits
• Increased yield through increased plant density
• 33% more plants grown per square metre
• Can overwinter crops
• Can bring crops earlier
• Increased productivity of pickers
• Reduced damage to the crop because the fruit is better presented
• Improved sanitation
• Better disease management
• No soil sterilisation

Triple Row

The Haygrove Triple Row Substrate System combines the steel gutter double and single row designs into a high intense multi-layer system.

This system is ideal for growers in mid latitude regions with high light levels, so shading is avoided. Using different strawberry cultivars can enable growers to prolong the picking season.

• Key Features
• Available in single or double drain
• 3m (9.84 feet) leg spacing
• Variable leg and picking height
• Fixed system
• 4 rows can fit in a 8.5m (27.89 feet) wide tunnel
• Approximately 15,300 running metres per hectare

• Product Benefits
• Higher yields
• Can add earlier or late crops on top row
• Increased productivity of pickers
• Reduced damage to the crop because the fruit is better presented
• Improved sanitation
• Better disease management
• No soil sterilisation

Ground Level

The Haygrove Ground Level Substrate System is designed to provide mechanisation with low labour costs and enable growers to pursue early and late season fruit.

This system is set up at ground level and designed to hold channels of bulk substrate media without the costs of handling trays or bags.

• Key Features
• 4m (13.12 feet) leg spacing
• Picking height of 0.3m (0.98 feet) to 0.5m (1.64 feet)
• Fixed system
• Typically, 8 rows in a 8m (26.25 feet) tunnel
• Approximately 10,200 running metres per hectare
• Can accommodate bulk coir
• Gutter has holes for drainage

• Product Benefits
• Soil borne disease risk avoided
• Nutrition management for increased yield
• Low labour costs – no need for costly trays or bag handling
• Good presentation of fruit
• Early and late crop

Substrate Bed

The Haygrove Substrate Bed Maker machine creates the ideal system to make the transition from soil to substrate production. The formation of the bed incorporates a furrow for either loose growing medium or a trough to sit in.

The advantage of keeping to a bed-type system is that the earth’s thermic energy helps insulate the roots, therefore bringing the picking time more in line with traditional soil grown strawberries.

• Key Features
• Substrate Bed Maker machine forms a soil substrate gutter
• Suitable for troughs or bulk substrate medium

• Product Benefits
• Similar picking dates to soil grown strawberries
• Entry level substrate system
• Beds last for several seasons
• Low cost substrate system