Leafy Vegetables

With its own spinach cultivation and a wide range of lettuce varieties, leafy vegetables represent a key core product from Staay. Spinach is grown on a large scale at the Staay facilities in Spain. Once the spinach is fully grown, the loose leaves are harvested with a reaper and transported by our own drivers to the Netherlands the next morning chilled and fresh. Lettuce varieties such as Lollo Rossa, Lollo Bionda and oak leaf are also field-grown here.

The Netherlands has invested in the indoor cultivation of lettuce. In this process, lettuce is cultivated in a fully automated process using LED-illuminated climate chambers before continuing to grow in the greenhouse in channels filled with water. This hydroponic lettuce is available in varieties such as the tricoloured Salatrio (3 types of lettuce on one root ball), red and green Salanova and butterhead lettuce. In addition to these heads of lettuce, we also grow Teenleaf. This is a new growing concept that provides a stronger variant of the well-known loose baby leaves that stays fresh longer.

Directly to the innovations:

• Hydroponic lettuce
• Teenleafs