Allium/onion plants
The new market for premium vegetable plants
Lubera.com, the online store of our sister company, has been selling premium vegetable plants for several years. These are grown in 1.3-litre square pots, packaged with care and then reliably shipped to customers. The price for most plants is currently around EUR 5.50, with a price increase of 10% planned for 2025. But how big is this market? What are Lubera's experiences in general? We are not initially discussing which companies could produce these young plants and where they are sold, we...
Read moreEverVeg® – the advantages for hobby gardeners, for retailers and for producing vegetable plants
We use the term 'EverVeg®' to describe a wide range of different vegetable plants, all of which share the same characteristics: edible parts of the plant, perenniality and the ease of growing them in home gardens. Here we present this group of vegetables as a whole; we show the importance of Ever Veg® in the overall assortment and present the consumer trends that favour EverVeg®.
Read moreProduction of Allium plants for trade and retail
At Lubera Edibles, our Allium young plants are standardly available in our 60-cell trays. With the introduction of this new group of young plants, we will initially offer both Allium young plants in the 'Multi+' quality (biennial/overwintered) and in the 'Multi' quality (annual) in order to be able to meet the demand. For an early and less temperature controlled potting, the Allium young plants of the quality 'Multi+' are suitable as usual because they are not so sensitive to temperature due to...
Read moreAllium young plants – onion plants as EverVeges®
We added perennial Allium species to our EverVeg® group (wild cabbage, wasabi, rhubarb, artichoke, skirret, horseradish). These Allium species are perennial, hardy and can be harvested all year round. Let the following text surprise and inspire you. We will mention which Allium species can expand and complement an Eternal Vegetables® bed and enrich your assortment of young plants.
Read moreFrom Plant Breeding To Mass Propagation Of Young Plants
Frederik Vollert from Lubera Edibles explains all about the advantages of mass propagation, why they do this and how this works for the Lubera Edibles Range.
'Lubera Edibles' is the young plant division of Lubera, it provides a large selection of delicious fruit varieties to growers. The companies of Robert Mayer and Lubera have joined forces to develop the new plants at Lubera which are then coordinated with the product development and in-vitro propagation at Mayer.
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5 reasons for breeding fruit and berry plants for home gardens
With Lubera® and Lubera® Edibles we are asked again and again, why we would have our own elaborate breeding programmes when there are so many fruit and berry breeding programmes worldwide from which one could use. Our short answer is this: because worldwide there are no fruit and berry breeding programmes that are especially geared towards the home garden. Almost the entire breeding efforts of universities, research stations and increasingly also of private breeders are aimed at...
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