Wholesale Nursery Management

£395.00

Managing a production nursery involves more than just propagating and potting up plants. Even the small nursery must be able to not only producer plants, but do it at a pre determined cost, then sustain those plants before and during marketing.. The nursery industry currently has a real need for people with skills and knowledge in managing production plant nurseries! This course provides a solid grounding for developing those skills.

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E-Learning Structure

The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 8 in-depth lessons:

  1. Nursery Site Organisation: Buying an established nursery or establishing a new site, site planning, estimating space requirements.
  2. Management: Government and commercial nurseries, partnerships, companies, sole proprietorships, developing a management structure, labour relations and seasonal staff, work programs and production timing.
  3. Nutrition and Pest Management: Field crops, container plants, principles of fertiliser use and plant nutrition.
  4. Growing Media: Soils and soil-free mixes, rockwool, sterilisation, techniques.
  5. Irrigation: Methods and equipment, estimation of water requirements and use of liquid fertilisers through irrigation.
  6. Modifying Plant Growth: Modification techniques, flower forcing and quality control.
  7. Marketing Strategies: Exploiting existing markets, developing new markets, advertising, product presentation, pricing, plant recycling.
  8. Selection of Nursery Crops: Developing a stock list, operational flow charts, market surveys.

Course Aims

  • Explain the significance of property, marketing and contracts to site selection.
  • Estimate the cost of producing different plant varieties as specified marketable products.
  • Develop a nutritional program for plants in a wholesale nursery.
  • Explain the implementation of integrated pest management in a specified nursery situation.
  • Explain different chemical methods of controlling plant appearance.

EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE

This is the type of thing you may do:

  • Investigate existing wholesale nursery operations.
  • Conduct tests to determine chemical and physical characteristics of three different potting mixes.
  • Design a classified advertisement, to promote a wholesale nursery, in a specified publication.
  • Analyse the management structure of an existing production nursery.
  • Evaluate the efficiency of propagating and potting up plants

How Does A Warnborough Online Course Work?

You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.

If you have any questions please contact us.

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