Greetings everyone,
We stumbled across a simple way to make a plant nursery at our farm in the mountains of Haiti. This may be so obvious that lots of people have done this already but I haven’t seen it described elsewhere so thought I would share it. We had a small gravel pad that was used for a temporary, sheet-metal/bamboo house here that we no longer needed so the house was removed. The pad had been surrounded by Napier grass on three sides. As the Napier got tall, it created a somewhat shaded area in the middle and so I decided to set up my plant nursery in there to allow the plants to get some light with getting too dried out by the sun. It has worked well so far. The only maintenance has been cutting back the Napier grass when it gets too tall and starts to fall over.
Here are a couple of pictures:
This picture is looking into the rectangular pad from the entrance.
This is looking at the entrance from an angle. I have used the one outside side of the enclosure that is most shaded from the sun to put extra plants.
Here is a diagram of the nursery:
It may not be as good as a shade net nursery but shade netting is something we can’t easily get here and Napier grass is abundant and free.