Metcalfes is a small family run business started by Tony and Marion Metcalfe in the 1950s. The business has grown from just a few small wooden greenhouses to over 1 acre of modern heated glass today. 

Up to 1998 the glasshouses and the surrounding land were used to grow vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers for the wholesale markets. But the closure of many small local shops forced us to change to the production of ornamental garden plants sold direct to the public.

Because our tomato growing past left us with high quality glasshouses equipped with computer controlled environment we were able to move into garden plant growing on a very efficient scale. This allowed us produce top quality plants and retail them at very competitive prices.

We still devote 25% of the glasshouses for the production of quality tomatoes and cucumbers for sale on the nursery and at our fruit shop at Pickering. See our tomato growing page.