(S.U.P.W.)
NURSERY
Instructional Objectives
1. To inculcate the aesthetic values in the students.
2. To make the students aware of the surrounding flora.
3. To train the students in skills of keeping nursery.
4. To make the students aware of the economic returns from nursery.
A. Theory :- 1. Nead of keeping a nursery in houses and school. 2. Knowledge of equipments such as pruning knife. grafting-knife, pair of scissors etc. used in a nursery. 3. Important flowering and decorative palnts such as Dahlia, Roses, Moghra, Har Singar, Jasmine, China Palm, Crotons, Cactaus, Sunflower, Pavsy etc. 4. Knowledge of practices involved in nursery bedding, Cutting, Grafting, Hybridization. 5. Use of manures and pesticides. 6. Planting for marketing.
B. Practicals :- 1. Preparing soil and pots for plants. 2. Bringing up young seedlings in pots / beds. 3. Transfer of seedlings to growing-beds, preparation of beds. 4. Manuring the plants. 5. Use of insecticides and pesticides. 6. Practice in vegetative propagation.
KITCHEN - GARDENING
Instructional Objectives 1. To acquaint the students with the possibilities of growing vegetables of daily need in house. 2. To make him feel that the uses of labour are sweet. 3. To inculcate a feeling of ''economic planning'' in the students. 4. To develop skill in the cultivation-operation and rearing of plants. 5. To develop an attitude of scientific planning.
A. Theory :- 1. How to select the site for a kitchen-garden. 2. Preparation of soil. 3. Selection of seeds for gardening. 4. Varieties of vegetables easily cultiva table in a kichen-garden, green vegetable, fruit vegetable, roots and tubers, stem vegetable and flower-vegetable. 5. Common plant diseases their prevention and control. 6. Common tools used in kitchen - gardening 7. Manures and insecticides.
B. Practicals :- 1. Selection of site for kitchen-gardening.