The Coldroom

The cold room is an essential piece of equipment for Gerbera growers in Australia. When the flowers are picked, sorted and bunched, they are put in buckets in the cold room until ready for delivery. Most florists also have a cold room or florist refrigerator for the flowers. It slows down the maturing process so the flowers are fresher for the customer.

We've had a couple of traumas with our cold room. One one occasion it froze all the flowers inside. Frozen gerberas are not pretty! We had it repaired, put the new pick of flowers in and again it froze.

Today as I was processing the flowers, I noted that the radio had gone off. We were listening to the progress of cyclone Larry in North Queensland. A fuse had "gone" so it was replaced. I noticed that the cold room was making an "unusual" sound and soon the fuse "went" again. It seems there is some problem with the compressor so as I write, we await our repairman again.

That's life.