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Growing tomatoes on substrate
In short
- 10 Chapters
- Online Articles & Videos
- Questionnaires
- Certification of completion
Expertise by Rijk Zwaan
Rijk Zwaan is one of world leading vegetable breeding company with local expertise. Our cultivation & breeding specialists will share the latest insights in substrate tomato cultivation.
2 weeks to complete
This course can be completed online within approximately 2 weeks of study time. You get a certificate after completing the course.
Become a better tomato grower
This course will show you the basics of growing tomatoes on substrate in
Central Eastern Europe in such way that you can increase your yield and profit.
Throughout this course you will discover:
Throughout this course you will discover:
- Why moving to soil-less culture?
- Cultivation planning
- Variety choices
- Nursery process
- Crop management
- Plant Protection
- Harvest and post harvest
Extend your cultivation knowledge now!
Get ready to enroll in our e-learning and become a better tomato grower.
Course Curriculum
Frequently asked questions
Yes this course is free of charge!
Rijk Zwaan is a vegetable seed breeder. We make new hybrid varieties of vegetables, with added value for all actors in the vegetable chain - such as disease resistances and higher yields and improved flavours. Our Head Office is in the Netherlands but we have subsidiaries in more than 30 countries and distributors in over a 100. We breed many vegetable varieties and sell seeds to professional food growers around the world. If you've eaten cucumber, tomato, sweet pepper, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot and really - almost any veggie in the supermarket - you've probably eaten a vegetable grown from Rijk Zwaan seeds.
We only breed vegetables and sell seeds. We don't engage in pharmaceutical or chemical production.
Rijk Zwaan is a family owned business with the ambition to increase vegetable consumption around the world. Read more about Rijk Zwaan at www.rijkzwaan.com
We only breed vegetables and sell seeds. We don't engage in pharmaceutical or chemical production.
Rijk Zwaan is a family owned business with the ambition to increase vegetable consumption around the world. Read more about Rijk Zwaan at www.rijkzwaan.com
That is not a problem, we like to share a healthy future! However, our curriculum is based on our varieties. The crop management refers to specific Rijk Zwaan varieties and may not be 1 on 1 applicable to other varieties. Of course, we like to see you becoming successful with the wide Rijk Zwaan assortment.
Yes, after completing all the lessons of this course you will get a certificate of completion in PDF. You can share this certificate online or print it on paper.
Meet our specialist tomato
Péter Molnár
Péter is a horticultural specialist at Rijk Zwaan with his boots firmly in the Central East European fields. Together with the international Tomato Crop Team of Rijk Zwaan he is sharing our knowledge about tomato varieties and cultivation. From low-tech to high-tech, Péter enjoys bringing growers to the next level by sharing his knowledge on crops but also the market and the business case of a variety. Furthermore he has a huge love for video and photography!
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