Harvesting, storing, and shipping [Chapter 13]

Thomas D. Landis; Tara Luna

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Harvesting, storing, and shipping [Chapter 13]

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Authors:

Thomas D. Landis, Tara Luna

Year:

2009

Type:

Agricultural Handbook

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Dumroese, R. Kasten; Luna, Tara; Landis, Thomas D., editors. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries - Volume 1: Nursery management. Agriculture Handbook 730. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. p. 229-245.

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Abstract

Plants are ready for harvest and delivery to clients after they have reached target specifications (see Chapter 2, The Target Plant Concept) and have been properly hardened (see Chapter 12, Hardening). Originally, nursery stock was grown in soil in fields; nursery managers would "lift" those seedlings out of the ground to harvest them. That traditional nursery term is still used today, and we refer to the traditional "lifting window" (usually late autumn to very early spring) as the time period during which plants are at maximum hardiness, most tolerant to stress, and therefore in the best condition for harvesting.

Parent Publication

Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries - Volume 1: Nursery management

Keywords

nursery, native plants, Virtual Center for Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetics Resources (RNGR), Tribal Nursery Council

Citation

Landis, Thomas D.; Luna, Tara. 2009. Harvesting, storing, and shipping [Chapter 13]. In: Dumroese, R. Kasten; Luna, Tara; Landis, Thomas D., editors. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries - Volume 1: Nursery management. Agriculture Handbook 730. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. p. 229-245.