Success StoryParticipants Learn How to Grow Quality Transplants for Gardening Success



Participants Learn How to Grow Quality Transplants for Gardening Success

Author: Annette Heisdorffer

Planning Unit: Daviess County CES

Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture

Plan of Work: Home and Consumer Horticulture, Master Gardeners

Outcome: Initial Outcome

     Consumers prefer to have the choice of growing the specific vegetable or flower variety they want.  For example, some heirloom varieties of tomatoes are not available at local nurseries.  This leaves the growing of the transplant to the consumer.  In addition, many seeds are available to Daviess County Citizens through the Seed Library developed by the partnership of the Green River Area Extension Master Gardeners and Daviess County Public Library.  To foster the growing of quality transplants to increase the production potential, the Daviess County Extension Agent for Horticulture Education presented “Growing Vegetable Transplants for the Garden” to 15 participants on a Saturday in March.  As a result of the meeting, 13 participants reported through a written survey that they learned the following:  92% learned how to manage the lighting for improved transplant quality, 92% learned how to harden off the transplants before planting them in the garden to increase the success of growing the plant in the garden, and 84% learned about the environmental conditions needed for quality transplant production.  In addition, 92% of those surveyed said they would harden off plants before planting them in the garden as a result of this program.






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