COASTAL ROOTS
Participating Schools

Program information

Nursery instructions

Information for Teachers

Helping Hands

LSU Coastal Roots:
Nursery Instructions

 

A Look at the Yearly Nursery Cycle

Seed Preparation & Nursery Production

  Stratification Instructions (cypress)  (203KB, PDF)
  Reading a Salinity Refractometer (580KB, PDF)
  Planting Your Seeds (162KB, PDF)
  Nursery Production Checklist (124KB, PDF)
  Bumping Up Your Seedlings to Larger Pots (153KB, PDF)
  Division of Grasses (1124KB, PDF)
 

Restoration Plants

  Southern Baldcypress (191K, PDF)    Loblolly Pine (coming soon!)
  Bitter Panicum (354K, PDF)                 Longleaf Pine (coming soon!)
  Black Mangrove (338K, PDF)               Nuttall Oak (coming soon!)
  Hackberry (222K, PDF)                         Red Mulberry (331K, PDF)
  Live Oak (208K, PDF)                           Swamp Red Maple (coming soon!)
  Louisiana Iris (193K, PDF)                    Wax Myrtle (216K, PDF)

Can Yard & Cold Frame Information

  Putting Down Roots (Coleman and Bush, 2002) (3025KB, PDF)
  Building a Cold Frame - Plans (213KB, PDF)
  Preparing to Construct Your CR Can Yard (162 K, PDF)
  Constructing Can Yards and Irrigation Systems (972KB, PDF)
        - Making a Can Yard (slideshow by Cody from Pierre Part Elementary, 900KB)
  Automatic Irrigation Timers
            pre 2006 timers: instructions for the "old" timers (203KB, PDF)
                                      troubleshooting your "old" irrigation timer (592KB, PDF)
            post 2006 timers: instructions for the "new" timers (197KB, PDF)
 

On the shore of Lake Pontchartrain.  
Photo by: Dr. R. Caffey, LSU AgCenter.  

Funded by:
Louisiana Sea Grant College Program