Disease-free planting material is the key to success in vegetable growing. An expert vegetable grower adhering to all other recommended cultivation practices is bound to fail if he or she compromises on using healthy planting material. Seeds of varieties / hybrids of vegetable crops are generally quite costly. Therefore, proper nursery management and transplanting operations should be carried out. The vegetables in which nursery is grown are cabbage, cauliflower, tomato, chilli, capsicum, onion, andbrinjal. We go for raising nursery because: It is easy to check the soil-borne diseases such as damping-off caused by fungi like Pythium, Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, etc, which can sometimes lead to loss of the entire nursery. The disease is characterized by rotting of seed in soil before germination or rot at soil level after emergence, leading to toppling of seedling in patches. The conditions favoring the disease like high humidity, high soil moisture, less light crowded seedlings, etc.
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