Sign up for our daily Newsletter and stay up to date with all the latest news You are receiving this pop-up because this is the first time you are visiting our site You are using software which is blocking our advertisements (adblocker) we are relying on revenues from our banners So please disable your adblocker and reload the page to continue using this site.Thanks The German cultivation company Gartenbau Drechsler grew a standard crop this year They could because they still had a fixed energy contract Grower Christoph Schmidt thinks insights provided by the model-based crop planning platform can also help growers cultivate more efficiently he used the platform for the first time in Abenberg That coincides with his first year as a grower at the German company which also has a cultivation site in Nuremberg "I worked there part-time until last year," begins Christoph I can nicely combine growing and computer work." InsightDrechsler built a five-hectare greenhouse on the Abenberg site in 2018 It consists of six sections in which they grow different types of tomatoes the growers cultivate cucumbers and eggplants too "He and I arrange cultivation and labor here together Dutch cultivation consultant Willem van Dijk told these German growers to take a look at the ProJoules platform but the ProJoules platform effortlessly shows you everything at a glance I no longer have to draw graphs; that helps tremendously." Varying greenhouse climatesThe growers cultivate various kinds of tomatoes on perlite: TOVs and three colors of snack tomatoes for a color mix "Four climate zones are set up for growing the larger tomatoes The greenhouse climate's biggest difference is how much the day and night temperatures we use to grow snack tomatoes differ," Christoph continues and we had to get some of our water from other sources CoatingProJoules has given the growers good insight into the amount of irradiation in joules ProJoules' model focuses on how much light there is in the greenhouse at the plant level the plants stress because there's so much light By entering last year's data into ProJoules we were far more aware of when that would happen The growers never used to coat the greenhouse "We didn't know exactly when to apply it either." ProJoules has given the growers that insight They coated the greenhouse between weeks 26 and 33 it was evident we were getting better production in the summer weeks than before." By the end of week 36 their volumes were three kilograms above 2021 production Production recordThe growers also regularly suffered blossom end rot because of plant stress this is an often-recurring problem in the plum tomatoes." This year "That's a big difference from other years," admits Christoph They are expecting the current crop to last until about week 40 Christoph hopes to exceed last year's production by four or five kilograms the grower has insight into what he can still harvest There we have two kilograms more than our previous record." Energy efficientThe growers are anxious to see when they can plant the next season's crop That's usually about two weeks before Christmas but the energy crisis is making growers cautious They have not yet decided on an exact start date What is certain is that energy-efficient cultivation will enjoy the extra attention "We can definitely use the ProJoules insights for that," says Christoph He is well pleased with the overviews the platform has already provided The ProJoules team is always easy to reach Christoph plans to enter even more climate and water data to have a complete overview of the entire crop in the portal "Each variety takes me five to ten minutes a week I find the time I put in is well worth it when I see what it means for our production and the insights I'm now getting," he concludes For more information:ProJoules[email protected]www.projoules.com  Garbenbau Drechslerwww.drechsler-gartenbau.de  FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 HortiDaily.com Blackmore’s Night is more than just a band — it’s a love story Long Island girl Candice Night was attending the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury working at Bennigan’s in Commack and interning at WBAB when she met English rock guitar god Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow the meeting was at a charity soccer game when Blackmore was playing and Night was cheering on her radio station buddies "I went over to Ritchie to congratulate him on his win and ask for his autograph," says Night "But when I walked away he sent a roadie through the crowd to ask who I was and to have me meet him later at a local pub." Friendship turned into romance and today the couple resides in Suffolk County Their relationship expanded into a musical partnership and by 1997 Blackmore’s Night was born shifted his focus from hard rock to Renaissance folk music the band is about to release a new studio album Criblez interviewed Blackmore and Night via e-mail about the inspiration behind some new songs their passion for Renaissance music and why they chose to live on Long Island How did you get drawn to Renaissance music By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy Blackmore: I had been listening to David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London since I saw them on a BBC special of King Henry VIII's wives very different than what I was surrounded with in the rock world I was in a German castle and there was a Renaissance band of minstrels called Des Geyers Schwarzer Haufen They were playing those songs on the authentic instruments and they instantly became my favorite band Night: I had never heard of Renaissance music before I met Ritchie It was all he would listen to when I moved in with him in ’91 … I was looking out the window as the snow was falling the music was playing in the background and it just seemed like it was the perfect soundtrack to nature Which songs on the new album are the most personal Blackmore: "The Last Musketeer" ["Der letzte Musketier"] was written because I was in a band called The Three Musketeers Our music consisted of very fast instrumentals which didn't please the audiences because they wanted to dance to our music The other two Musketeers have since passed on Partly because we never had any pressure in which to tour and everything was just fun at that point it’s "Feather in the Wind." After I lost my dad I started seeing signs that he was still with me One of the signs was feathers started appearing in strange places — in the kitchen So I had this idea that our spirits all become these feathers in the wind that get carried to their ultimate destinations When was the last Blackmore’s Night live show a brilliant castle in Germany [Burg Abenberg Open Air 2019 Festival] It's always good to do a good last show of the tour I’m always practicing and playing the guitar at home and sometimes Candy and I will just play to our friends in a tavern or pub just to keep our chops up Having played to over 200,000 people and I’ve done it for quite a while I get just as big a thrill now by playing to 10 people and our friends Night: I think we miss the live experience and connecting with the fans more than anything I personally miss traveling to the amazing places we were lucky enough to be able to tour in it’s been said that kids who take up guitar always try to learn the riff to "Smoke on the Water" first When I first wrote the riff and the chord progression for the song I kept it simple so that the postman could whistle it on his rounds It’s been a great compliment that so many people enjoy it What keeps you on Long Island and what do you enjoy about it Blackmore: I’d lived in Huntington before and now we live further out east We are very lucky to live on the water and by the woods so there is lots of nature around close enough to the best city in the world The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25¢for 6 months