Solitude Nursery

MWF/ FORESTRY nursery Capacity 75 000 seedlingsCommunity nursery for

community forest

Prepare media for sowing seeds

Seed sowing

• In pots• In plugs• On beds

stacking

• On table,• On ground• In cage

Potting in small or big pots or plugs

Watering, hardening and weeding

Record keeping

• Accession number• Date sown• Media / pretreatment

used • Date germinated and

number• Date removed • Destination• Remarks

Staff

• One nursery manager • 9 other staff• Everyboby does everything in the team, seed

collection, nursery work, planting in the field, monitoring, bat and birds count, office work, education etc.

• Help from volunteers; scouts, school leavers, youth groups, staff of private companies, fishermen during octopus closed season, jeune chambre economique, etc….

Problems encountered

• Lack of water for irrigation• Lost of rare seedlings (cage)• Lost/ misplace labels ( place one in pot)• Lots of weeds• Pests and diseases snails, rats,