Producing fresh and tasty herbs and salads for supermarkets, catering, and restaurants requires constant supervision and control of cultures during all growth stages.
With advanced commercial herb and salad production equipment, growers can ensure consistent quality and optimize every stage of production. That is true for irrigation, grow lights, and climate. Automatic control of these factors is critical to harvest the full yield potential. With controller technology from DGT by Senmatic, you obtain full control and adjustability in a user-friendly system.
Grow lights have a massive impact on plant growth and the final quality of your herbs and salads. With the Grow Horti LED fixture, you ensure a stable and high-quality light environment that supports natural growth processes and maintains consistent crop quality year-round.
Precision is key in modern greenhouse operations. The Grow Horti solution allows you to manage light intensity to match the specific needs of your cultures. This is especially important for salads, which have a limit on how much light they can absorb. By controlling the light levels, you effectively:
By integrating Grow Horti with Senmatic’s control technology, you can automatically adjust light intensity in accordance with changes in natural daylight. This ensures that your specific culture always receives the optimal light level, preventing unnecessary energy costs while maximizing your yield potential.
See how Swedish company Spisa Smaker uses LED grow lights to meet consumer demand for red salads.
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Different herbs and salads have different irrigation and fertilizer needs. This is where commercial herb and salad production equipment plays a crucial role in enabling precise and efficient resource management. With the flexible AMI Penta Irrigation and Fertilizer Mixer from DGT by Senmatic, you can sectionalize your production to work with different cultures at different growth stages at the same time. In other words: All you need is one mixer, even when you produce different cultures with different nutritional needs.
A flexible irrigation system can be divided into smaller sections tailored to your system and your production. You can divide the irrigation sections into up to 200 valves. This gives you the opportunity to control and dose irrigation to each valve and thereby each culture.
Read about the crop breeding company Nordic Seed to whom a flexible irrigation system is key.
With DGT by Senmatic’s AMI Penta Mixer you can recycle return water and mix it with fresh water according to a percentage ratio. This type of functionality is an integral part of modern greenhouse equipment for herbs and salads, where efficient resource management is key. Fresh water and return water are mixed based on your predefined fertilizer recipes the moment it flows into the mixer.
The AMI Penta Mixer can control up to eight basins in the same system. With the AMI Penta Mixer you can separate the basins, meaning that the return water is in a separate basin in which fresh water is not mixed in. This gives you high flexibility and can significantly optimize your water resources.
Together, these capabilities support resource-efficient greenhouse operations aligned with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on selected key areas such as sustainable food production and responsible use of water and energy.
Contact a specialist from DGT by Senmatic to get tailored guidance for your horticultural department. Our team of experts are ready to help you optimize your nursery with sustainable technology solutions.
