Food We Grow
If you have been craving a tomato all winter, then you don’t have to wait any longer, Tomatoes are ready! We grow four varieties of tomatoes in the greenhouse that are available from April to December. All of our hydroponic produce is pesticide free, so you can be confident that you are eating food that is not only delicious but safe too. In fact, Sun Harvest Greenhouses has received the Gold Standard rating in 2009-2010 , now three years running , in the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Food Safety Audit.
- Tomatoes
Spring - Fall - Raspberries
Summer - Fall - Beans
Summer - Fall - Carrots
Summer - Fall - Asparagus
new for spring 2011
- Potatoes
Summer - Fall - Garlic
Summer - Fall - Melons
Summer - Fall - Sweet Corn
Summer - Fall - Pumpkins
Fall - Squash
Fall
Great tasting produce, grown pesticide free!
Many people ask if our tomatoes are organic. The way we explain it is that growing hydroponically means growing plants in water and not in soil, and as such, our tomatoes are not grown in the traditional organic way. Soil provides inherent fertility or nutrients for plants and without soil, you need to add nutrients to the water in order to sustain excellent plant health and production. All nutrients are added in carefully measured quantities depending on the stage of growth of the tomatoes and are recycled continuously so that there is no waste of nutrients and water.
We do not use pesticides to control pests in our vegetable greenhouses but instead use crop-scouting techniques to monitor pest populations in the greenhouses and introduce beneficial insects (good bugs) in sufficient numbers to reduce the numbers of harmful insects (bad bugs). We introduce bumblebees regularly to ensure consistent pollination, so the bees are our most important beneficial insects.