Wholesale Nursery Management

Wholesale Nursery Management

Course info

This fascinating course works as a compendium of all you need to know about establishing a nursery and running it to its maximum profitability. Everything from site selection, plant specialisation, irrigation and feeding techniques, to marketing strategies, cost analyses, and employee productivity is covered.

What will you achieve from this course?

After completing Wholesale Nursery Management you will have an understanding of how site characteristics influence the establishment and management of wholesale nurseries as well as the physical and chemical properties of growing media used in production nurseries.  You will be better able to devise strategies to increase sales, influence the growth of plants and much more!

Lessons:

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

Course Delivery

This course is able to be completed either online or by correspondence.

Work Load  | Full time: 12hrs per week |  Part time: 6hrs per week |  Total Duration 100hrs

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