Irish tomato business faces delayed start to 2023 growing season

“As it stands now, we have no order, we have nobody to raise our plants for 2023.”

David Currid of Grantstown Nurseries in Ballygunner on the outskirts of Waterford City. Mr Currid purchases his plants from Dutch company, Plantise, which is winding down its operations. Picture: Dan Linehan

An Irish tomato grower faces a delayed start to his 2023 season following the announcement that the Dutch plant raiser he works with is winding down business.

Grantstown Nurseries, based in Ballygunner outside Waterford City, grows around 250 tonnes annually of eight different tomato varieties in one hectare of modern glasshouses.