Limited Tickets

Private Tour of Kube Pak Growers - 1:00PM on April 5th, 2017

Cost is $15.00 for NJNLA Members 

Come join us for a very informative, fun and rewarding day!

Our guide and host for the tour is Rob Swanekamp

Welcome to Kube-Pak

 
Kube-Pak is a wholesale grower of fine garden plants.  They offer Custom Grown Plugs and Rooted Cuttings as well as Finished Annuals and Perennials. Kube Pak is owned and operated by the Swanekamp family. They are a wholesale greenhouse, located in Allentown, New Jersey. 
Recently they celebrated their 50th year in business. 

One of the first questions people ask us is what is Kube-Pak? The name Kube-Pak refers to the unique way that we package our bedding plants. Basically what we do is compress and form soil mix into a "kube". Four of these "kubes" are put into a plastic "pak". Eight of these "paks" are put into a flat. It is actually an old idea that came from Europe, where farmers would make dirt cubes with soil from their fields. We have updated the idea and now use specialized soil mixes and a large hydraulic press to form our kubes. This machine presses two flats of kubes at a time and produces about one thousand flats an hour.
We have 803,000 square feet (18 acres) of gutter-connected double-poly greenhouses. In it we grow plugs, bedding plants, hanging baskets, and flowering potted plants. Potted plants include annuals and perennials in the spring, hardy mums and flowering mums in the fall and poinsettias during the holiday season.    We also have 6 acres of outside growing area.
The biggest part of our business is plugs and rooted cuttings. This is a year round business, and we pride ourselves on providing quality starter plants to the industry. One of the first innovations at Kube-Pak was the development of the first automatic drum seeder in the world. This technology was developed in 1970, fifteen years before drum seeders became commercially available in the United States. Because of our experience using these seeders we offer superior seed placement on our plug trays. That means a better-finished plug flat for our customers.
All plug orders are custom grown and there is a large selection of extra material available every week in our Ready Bay. Kube-Pak is a wholesale greenhouse only.