Nursery Crop	Description of ways plant is grown in a nursery (PNP, traditional, bare root, balled and burlapped)	Picture of these plants in a nursery setting	Plants typically cultivated this way
Trees
Shrubs
Perennials

Nursery Management Research 3.02, P:4
These questions are a guide to help you prepare for your nursery endeavor. You and your business team will be propagating, cultivating, and marketing plants that will be grown in the nursery for sale at the plant sale in the spring. These questions will help you to understand nursery production in greater depth and make you a better nurseryman/woman.
Use any source on the internet, in person, or in life to help you fill in this nursery management guide.

Propagation type and nursery plants generally propagated using this technique	Description	Additional Information	Picture or graphic of this propagation technique
Sexual		Stratification and plant example: / Scarification and plant example:
Cuttings		Softwood (herbaceous) cutting: / Hardwood cutting:
Grafting		Scion: / Rootstock:
Budding		Chip bud: / T-bud:
Layering		Air layering: / Trench layering:

	Peat	Perlite	Vermiculite	Bark	Lime	Fertilizer	Wetting Agents
Description and use in the nursery industry
Number

Soils for planting in the ground at a nursery (traditional field production)	Uses ___________________ soils in traditional field planting. / Tree and ________________ roots needs to grow in the native soil. / A soil _____________should be used to determine if soil amendments are needed. / Soil amendments ______________________ water and nutrient holding capacity. / Soil amendments improve aeration and water __________________. / Soil amendments should be _________ with the natural soil.

Organic Soil Amendments for Nursery Media / Describe what each item does for the media.	Inorganic Soil Amendments for Nursery Media
Sphagnum Peat / Grass Clippings / Saw Dust / Compost / Manure / Organic “fresh” material must be completely composted before using. Can’t use our fresh chicken manure on plants– it is too rich!	Vermiculite / Perlite / Pea Gravel / Sand

Planting in Containers
On the left, show where to place a plant.
On the right, show where to place three plants that would go in this one pot.
On the far right, draw a line to where the soil depth should be.

Irrigation Container and PNP	Irrigation Field Grown
Watering is _____ important for these plants because roots can go no deeper or spread any wider than the container. / Best time of day to water: / Can be watered multiple times per day? / Container plants should be watered until the water runs _______ the holes in the bottom and it is heavy to lift. / A _________ container needs about one pint of water per watering. / Container plants require ________ water in dry, hot and windy weather. / Container plants need more water when actively growing and ____________. / Do not allow any container plants to _________ out.	Field grown plant should be watered in the __________ for maximum absorption. / A more _________ soil needs more water than a clayey soil. / Watering for field production depends on the __________. / Field grown plants require more water in hot, dry, and _________ weather. / Field grown plants need more water when actively growing and ____________. / Do not allow any field grown plants to ______ out.

Fertilizing Topic	Description, information, further details
Fertilizer Schedule
Liquid Fertilizer
Slow Release Fertilizers
Mature plants in containers and fertilizer
Tissue analysis
Nutrient deficiencies
Top Dressing

Marketing Plan	Information
Develop a marketing plan	Complete a marketing _________ to determine your target market. / Once this is complete, determine what to ______. / Know your ____________________.
Price your product	Use this formula to determine your price: / Materials + overhead + __________= selling price
Promotion	Give examples for each: / Advertise- / Public relations- / Personal contacts- / Communications-
Placement	Provide a place that is convenient to the customer. / Shipping, delivery, internet ordering or _____________ pick up.

Describe Wakefield High School’s Marketing Plan for our annual spring plant sale. Write one paragraph of five sentences to describe what you know. Don’t know anything? Go to www.wakefieldffa.com and look up the information.