Setting up nursery blue presentation HELE 5.pptx

setting up nursery

1. SETTING UP A PLANT NURSERY

2. NURSERY It is a place where young plants are propagated and given extra care while growing before they are transplanted.

3. FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN SETTING UP A PLANT NURSERY A nursery should be located within the home garden and near the source of water. A nursery should be built on an elevated place. A nursery should have adequate supply of air and sunlight. The nursery can be square or rectangular. Provide a space for seedbed of 1 meter wide and 5 meters long with enough space in between. The nursery should be fenced and screened for protection against insect and stray animals.

4. TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED IN NURSERIES

5. CONTAINERS It includes pots, plastic bags and cans.

6. CULTIVATOR It is used for breaking up soil and cultivating and uprooting rootstock.

7. SPADING FORK It is a tool used to weed and cultivate the soil around the base of the plants.

8. SPADE This is used to weed and cultivate plants and to dig trenches. It is easy to pulverize soil using a spade.

9. HAND FORK It is a cultivating and weeding tool for backyard and school gardening.

10. TROWEL This is like a hand fork and used to cultivate and weed small garden plants.

11. PICK MATTOCK It is used for digging hard top soil and for digging canal or ditches.

12. RAKE This is used to level and pulverize soil.

13. HEAD SHEAR It is used to prune plants.

14. NURSERY ACTIVITIES Preparing the soil. Applying Fertilizers Planting the seeds. Transplanting the Seedlings.

15. REMEDIOS L. CHAN