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Lettuce and brassica seedlings

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Lettuce and brassica seedlings

Large volumes of vegetable and ornamental plant seedlings such as these are produced by Zealandia Horticulture for commercial and domestic growers. In 2008 the company employed 300 people at seven locations throughout New Zealand.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Production nurseries and cut flowers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20024/lettuce-and-brassica-seedlings (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.