Organic Nursery Plants

Commercial Green Printing for a Plant Nursery Business

Almost all regional communities have plant nurseries. Plant nurseries involve the cultivation of several types of plants for a number of uses. They are commonly used as ornamentals in gardens and parks. They are cultivated for their decorative characteristics such foliage texture, flower color, and growth habit. Plant nurseries also cultivate plants according to use such as plants for indoors, beach gardens, xeriscapes, soil remediation, ponds or pools. Generally, plants in a nursery are arranged according to species type beginning with grasses, groundcover, shrubs, and trees. From this general arrangement, plants can be arranged in subgroups or categories depending on the owner’s design. Plant nurseries can meet certain marketing challenges including limited resources and competition. When this happens, business owners can make use of environment-friendly, commercially printed marketing materials. The following are examples of these environment-friendly printed products.

Catalogs – Catalogs can be used as comprehensive and informative marketing materials. Owners can print a variety of product information all in one place. The catalogs can show the nursery’s entire collection of plants organized according to several categories including plant type, use, or growing condition. The plants can be shown with full color images and descriptions on price, species type, hardiness, and maintenance instructions. As promotional materials, they can strengthen the brand by showing a nursery’s name, logo, tagline, and history in preceding pages. Commercial online printing companies practice environment-friendly printing by bringing paper scraps to recycling centers.

Brochures – Brochures are a direct tool for promoting a plant nursery business. Brochures provide a quick way for customers to be informed about a nursery’s products and services. They can feature a bulleted list of services, products, work schedules, planting techniques, delivery services, and fees. This information can be illustrated with full color photo images for clarity. Convenient, online printing companies now make use of eco-friendly soy-based inks and water-based aqueous coating for their printed products.

Posters – A poster print can be an affordable, high-impact marketing tool for a plant nursery business. Posters have more space to feature promotional information and colorful graphics. They can feature more information about the brand, its products, and services. They can also be used as on-site promotional materials that announce seasonal offers, discounts and holiday rates. Commercial online printers have also turned to environmentally-friendly poster printing practices by making use of 10 to30 percent recycled paper stocks approved by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Forestry Initiative and the Forest Stewardship Council.

growing tomatoes in a container — tips?

i bought a couple small organic tomatoe plants from a nursery and i need to replant them in a larger container (from what ive been told, the new container should be at least twice the size of the one i bought it in).
does anyone have any tips for replanting and keeping healthy tomatoes?

I worked as a grower producing tomatoes for restaurants. I would not recommend anything smaller than a five gallon container – unless it is a dwarf tomato like Micro Tom.

I usually plant in a mix of 1/2 potting mix and 1/2 composted manure. This gives the tomatoes a lot of nutrients for strong growth. You can find composted manure in bags at a garden center. It actually resembles soil and dosen’t smell. Staking is a must and try to keep them moist. You’ll be surprised at how much water a full size plant will require. Something like 2 gallons on a hot day.

As far as transplanting goes we bury the stem of our tomatoes about half way when we plant. It sounds odd but if you look at the stem of a tomato plant you’ll see small clear/whitish hairs – those are actually root hairs. When they are buried they grow into full size roots and allow the plant to suck up water and nutrients faster, which makes them grow faster.

I have grown over 100 varieties of tomatoes and have experimented with removing the side shoots/suckers, it really didn’t impact the production of fruit either way. Some varieties of tomatoes are prone to sun scald which is basically a sunburn – by leaving the side shoots the fruit was shaded more and scalding was prevented.

If you use the manure in the soil additional fertilizer is not really necessary but any balanced organic fertilizer can be used.

That’s it – enjoy your tomatoes.

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