 | Daniel Mansfield from Mansfield’s Nursery in Melbourne, a third generation nurseryman from one of Australia’s premier tube growers, opened the day with a comprehensive introduction to growing quality tubestock based around the production process of Mansfield Nursery.
He emphasised the need to build quality parent stock plants to achieve consistant high results with cutting strike rates and therefore ensuring maximum profits for the effort put in. He also showed participants the various ways that the nursery maximises it water potential on site through recycling runoff, nutrient scrubbing and cost effective fertigation practices.
Stock plants are rowed out within the grounds with alternating roadways of turf and mulch between the rows. When the stock plants are cut back the 'tops' are mulched back into the roadways thereby replenishing the mulch thickness and contributing to the organic content of the soil. He stated that the mulch is applied at a standard thickness throughout the stock beds of 150mm and that it contributed significantly to the eventual quality of the stock plants. |
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Propagators day, August 08 |
