Nursery is a compact place where seedlings of small and costly crops are raised for better germination and growth under incentive care. Seedlings of several vegetables need to be first raised in well prepared nursery bed before transplanting them in main field.

Nursery management is as very important operation in successful production of vegetable crops, especially in crops which are essentially raised through seedlings in proper managed nursery beds.

Raisings seedlings in the nursery beds is an economical, easier and convenient way to nourish and take special care of young, tender seedlings against pest, diseases, weeds, heavy rains, hot sun and other natural hazards.

Generally, seeds of small seeded vegetable crops such as brinjal, chili, tomato, capsicum, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, onion etc. are first raised in nursery beds, besides the seedlings of cucurbitaceous crops are also raised in polybags.

A few farmers raise potato seedlings in poly bags or small katcha earthen pots to reap advantage of taking early crop to avoid loss due to rain. Raising the healthy nursery is a specialized technology which requires knowledge and skills about various nursery raising techniques and scientific management of nurseries.

The advent of different nursery techniques has opened the new vistas for growing healthy vegetables crops in any part of the year and irrespective of any vegetable crop.

Such initiative techniques are facilitating the growers in producing off season vegetable crop for getting high yield and fetching remunerative returns.

The young and tender plants are well nourished and protected in nursery area which in return facilitate better seed germination and healthy seedlings production resulting ultimately in reduced seed rate and improved yield and quality.