The large cell size gives a long shelf life for my plants, a quality I’ve grown to appreciate over the years. Tray inserts are labeled by the number of packs and the number of cells: I use 806 tray inserts, which have 8 six-packs per 1020 flat (the common 10” x 20” size). Some of the author’s gallon zucchini and tomatoes in the greenhouse ready to sell.Ĭell pack tray inserts come in a variety of sizes. I grow alliums in 3.5” pots, sowing 20-30 seeds per container and instructing customers to pull them apart and plant them bare root. I use six-packs for lettuces, leafy greens, and most other herbs, vegetables and annual flowers. I sell solanums, cucurbits, and perennial flowers individually in 3.5” or gallon pots. Which crops go into which container depends on how they grow and how I expect people to use them. Sometimes I start seeds in plug trays and pot them up, mostly for slower growing plants started on heat.
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Having every cell full is important for start sales, so I sow my nursery flats hot (extra seeds in each cell), and thin those that particularly benefit from the space. (Side note: Though commonly referred to as “gallon pots,” they don’t actually hold a gallon and the accurate term in the industry is #1 containers). But for sale, I grow plants in six-pack tray inserts or 3.5” or gallon pots. When growing transplants for my own use, I use mostly plug trays. I wrote about adding vegetable starts to your farm in GFM in 2011, but I have picked up lots of new tricks since then so I thought the subject was worth revisiting. They are an easy thing to try out and could be a good fit for your farm. They have quick turnaround and low risk, and they fill out sparse beginning-of-season market stands. Vegetable and flower starts are a great source of spring revenue and an early draw for customers. Since then, we’ve increased our sales annually and I can’t imagine operating our farm without them. When we started our farm in 2010, the very first thing we sold were seedlings. Contact information for your local NCFS county office and nursery locations is available at /contacts.Published originally in Growing for Market Magazine Seedling orders are also available for pickup from the NCFS Claridge Nursery in Goldsboro or the Linville River Nursery near Crossnore.įor information on planting trees, people are encouraged to contact an NCFS county ranger.
Seedling orders can be shipped to one of 13 distribution centers statewide for a small fee or via UPS for a charge. Accepted methods of payment are check, money order, Mastercard and Visa.ĭistribution of tree seedlings will occur December through mid-April, depending on weather conditions.Each description includes information about ideal planting locations and whether a species is typically used to benefit wildlife, restore habitats or as marketable timber. Inside the catalog, landowners can find information about the types of tree species, quantities and cost to order. A user-friendly catalog is available at the “Tree Seedlings & Nursery Program” link located at Catalogs will also be available at local NCFS offices beginning in July.Complete the form and mail to Seedling Coordinator, 762 Claridge Nursery Road, Goldsboro, NC 27530. Tree seedlings can be ordered using the order form found in our current catalog.Tree seedlings can also be ordered by phone at 1-888-NCTREES (1-88).Tree seedlings can be ordered from the online seedling store at.How can you order tree seedlings from the NCFS Nursery and Tree Improvement Program? Forest Service catalog for a complete species listing. These seedlings offer better volume growth, form, disease resistance, straightness, and other characteristics needed to produce quality forest products. Genetically improved stock is available in loblolly, longleaf, shortleaf and white pines as well as other species. Momi fir, Eastern red cedar, and Virginia pine are available this year. For those wishing to submit larger orders, the nursery sells tree seedlings by the hundreds and thousands.
“To have a Nursery and Tree Improvement Program producing quality understory plants and nearly 50 native tree species available to landowners across the state is North Carolina’s good fortune, and I encourage landowners to take advantage of it.”Ĭonifers and hardwoods are sold in units as low as 10 and as high as 100. “Healthy trees and forests are as important as ever for North Carolina and a benefit to our environment,” said Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler. With an average annual production of 15 million seedlings, the Nursery and Tree Improvement Program produces enough native and genetically improved tree seedlings to plant around 30,000 acres of land each year. The North Carolina Forest Service is now accepting orders in its annual tree seedling sale.
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