Nursery Structures
Nursery plants are planted in rows directly in the native soil.
What is field grown traditional?
Spray water on the bud before a freeze.
What is bud protection?
Two methods of propagating plants?
What is sexual and asexual propagation?
Adds macro and micro nutrients to the soil
What is fertilizer?
The targeted group of people in a market analysis.
Uses a slightly larger pots (socket pots) buried in rows in the ground and the potted plants (production pots) are placed inside).
What is the Pot-In-Pot nursery structure?
This is used to shape plant material and make plants more compact.
Joining separate plant parts together to form a union and grow.
What is grafting?
Natural volcanic material that helps aerate the soil.
What is perlite?
Materials + Overhead + Labor = Selling Price
What is the formula for determining price?
This nursery structure is expensive to heat because it uses solar panels, electric heat, or manure.
What is the Hotbed nursery structure?
A process used to solve pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
Forcing roots to grow on the stem of the plant while it is still attached to the parent plant.
What is layering?
The soil naturally present in a region.
What is native soil?
What are important things to research before marketing nursery products?
Target market, population, competition
This nursery structure requires more water because the plants are housed in individual containers.
What is container method?
Traps and collects heat during the day and releases it at night to keep your plants warm and growing.
What is a frost blanket?
Chilling seeds to simulate winter conditions before germination. Examples: baptisia and daylily.
What is stratification?
Calcium and magnesium increased the pH level of soil making it alkaline or “sweet” correcting the acidity of the soil.
What is lime?
Advertising, public relations, personal contacts, and communications
What is promotion?
Cover with white plastic during the winter to reduce overwintering injury to woody ornamentals as well as reduce temperature fluctuations during the overwintering period.
What are shade houses?
Manages pests by physical means such as the use of a barrier, screens, row covers, trapping, weeding or removal of the pest by hand.
What is mechanical control?
Pieces of stem from woody plants. Cuttings are taken fall through winter.
What is hardwood cutting?
Defined as having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass. Soil media must have this!
The rivalry between companies selling similar products and services.
What is competition?