Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management

9.6 Do It Yourself
1. Select and collect best garden plants growing in your area and plant them in your
institute.
2. Grow indoor plants in your institute and at home in pots.
3. Prepare growing media of soil + compost and fill the pots by placing brick gravel and
coarse sand at drain hole.
4. Photograph the best ornamental and valued plants for library and prepare album for
plant library.
5. Visit best gardens, corporate offices and public area with tree plantation and make a
short note on visit.
6. Identify the diseases and pests of the plants and undertake control measures for them.
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