In Agriculture, Sylviculture, Arboriculture or Horticulture, a seedbed is a field or a plot of land reserved for the mutiplication of the woody plants mainly (Arbre S, Arbuste S) but also of hardy perennials, and for their culture until they reach the stage where they can be transplanted or marketed.
The term can also apply to the pieces in which and annual plants (in particular vegetables and plants with flowers) until the stage raised are sown where they are ready to be “mended” on their final site.
Types of seedbeds
By Métonymie, the term seedbed indicates also a specialized company in the production of woody, semi-woody and long-lived plants. One distinguishes two principal types from producers:- producers of young seedlings which ensure the multiplication of the plants by vegetative way (Bouturage, Marcottage, in vitro Multiplication…) or by sexuée way (Sowing). In general, those preserve their subjects one to two years to the maximum.
- the nursery gardener-stockbreeders who receive the plants of the producers of young seedlings for then putting them in culture over one three years duration minimum (except the long-lived ones which, they, have a cycle lower than one year).
These plants are ensuites directly sold to the private individuals, with the communities, other nursery gardeners or companies of green areas. The sales of plants to the Garden-center S or the companies of Large distribution are done in general within the framework of contracts of culture.
Etymology
The term of seedbed derives from Pépin, seed of certain fruits. Indeed, in the beginning, the seedbeds were the places where one sowed the Graine S of some Fruit trees or foresters.
Another direction
In a more general way, the term seedbed gets busy in the fields economic and educational to indicate institutions or structures forming in great number of the qualified personnel for a type of given employment. Thus in France, one can say that ENA is the seedbed of the Cadre S of the State.A Pépinière of companies is a structure intended to facilitate the creation of Entreprise S while bringing to a technical support and financier, councils and services, often organized and financed by local government agencies, even by the State.
A seedbed is also a term generally used within the framework of work of revision of annual accounts to describe a whole of problems related to the absence of competence of managers of companies. By similarity, " pépins" identified during the control of annual accounts are gathered under a unit defines by the " pépinière". " We are in a pépinière" translated in fact the concern of the Revisers of company who are confronted with irregularities being able to have an impact significantly on the conclusion of their work. See also definition of the word " Folklore ".
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