Previously heated greenhouse delivers the first Belgian grapes just a little earlier

Grape grower Ronald Vanderkelen grows grapes in a greenhouse in Overijse. His harvest is more than a week later this year due to the cold summer, he told GroentenNieuws this week. Fellow grape grower Philip Dewit, also from Overijse, is already in production. He has more grapes to market and therefore started heating his greenhouse earlier. As a result, some of his grapes are ripe earlier, so the grower is already on the local market with his product, Vilt knows. In order to stimulate grape cultivation, to which both Vanderkelen and Dewit are nowadays exceptions, the provincial government, in collaboration with the Boerenbond, has set up a ...