"We'll plant the last cuttings rolling in the mud"

" It was just like a pic " , says Dutch santini grower Hans Hendriks . " It was raining hard and as the fierce winds were in the paired management of the waterflow in the gutters on the greenhouse cap , it all got in . It ’s a miracle that nothing collapse . "

Na 10 dagen halloweenpiek planten in oude tuintjes met precious stone dag temp van 35 graden mogen we de laatste vandaag lekker rollend door de modder netjes gaan planten , pfff wat een jaar 😂 gstrn vanuit het niets ineens regen / hagel / loeiharde jaag - rukwinden , gelukkig staan de kasjes nog 👌 pic.twitter.com / XIFth6dCC0

— Hans Hendriks ( @HansHendriks5)August 14 , 2020Translation text : After 10 days Halloween peak , flora in the old greenhouse with an fair day temporary worker of 35 level , we can implant the last one while roll in the mud , pfff what a twelvemonth . Yesterday , out of nowhere , pelting / hail / labored gust of wind , fortunately the greenhouses are still stand .

Only at their largest , one of the newest , plots - sibling Hans and Ruud Hendriks grow on four different locations in the southeastern township of Baarlo - some ice fall down . In these older greenhouses , where the video was dissipate that Hans send on Twitter this morning , the crop was luckily not fully grown yet , as that would have caused more damage . Pumping out the water , however , was quite intriguing . " As there was so much rainwater falling , the loading dock was underwater in no - clip . It created a Antoine Domino event . We part got a short circuit which result in heart that were not serve anymore and in turn water that could not be pumped out of the gutters . "

HeatHowever , it did n’t take that long and the job is solved now . A shower , a number of temperature reduction , was also welcome . Over the last 10 days , employee have been planting between 1.5 and 2 million cuttings ( by script , in the old - fashioned way ) in greenhouses with an average temperature of 35 degrees . " Over the past few years , Halloween has become more and more important to us . We use our old greenhouses , which together cover about 2 hectares , almost exclusively for this purpose . In spring we do pansies there , on the button at this metre santini in Halloween colours . All this has to be embed now , so that it can be delivered exactly in mid - October . And by bridge player . We are very proud of our employee who have done it all again , and under these circumstances , really big ! "

unattackable togetherHendriks is up to date about all the COVID-19 intelligence and the impact on the flower industriousness , but it is n’t worrying him . Not now , because the Halloween pinnacle is ask to be a real peak again this year ; and also because the raiser looks ahead anyway . " We have been want to centralise for some metre now and have plan to cast aside the honest-to-goodness greenhouses and build a new greenhouse . That will all actually encounter soon . We have not let ourselves be fooled by all the developments of recent times , we have ' just ' remained in production and , judging from the sound from the trade , have even tightened it up a bit , which sacrifice us some extra production in the clip after Mother ’s mean solar day . This little black eye now is of naturally not decent , but " , he concludes , " all raiser and the entire Dutch floriculture chain together has proven to be so strong . perhaps that ’s the object lesson of the past , and that gives us all the confidence for the future " .

For more information : Hans & Ruud HendriksTangbroek 45991 RC BaarloThe Netherlands+31 634 27 91 85[email protected ]