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'Home Garden Expert Course'
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  Home Garden Expert Course
Want to know more about gardening? There are 8 units involved in this course. Each unit is made up of 2 or 3 lessons. The eight units are as follows:‑ 1. Basic Plant Identification & Culture Plant names, planting, transplanting, tools & equipment. 2. Soils & Nutrition Soil structure, nutrition, composting, soil building, drainage, fertilizers. 3. Pests & Weeds Identifying problems, sprays, biological control, weed identification & control. 4. Landscaping How to design a garden, rockeries, native gardens, traditional (European style) home gardens. 5. Propagation Propagating materials, seed, cuttings. 6. Lawns: Turf varieties, laying a lawn, lawn care. 7. Indoor Gardening Hardy indoor plants, container growing. 8. The Kitchen Garden Vegetable gardening, fruit trees, herbs. WHAT YOU WILL DO Here is just some of what you will do: *Read notes written and supplied by staff of this school *Watch instructional video *Test and name different soils *Mix inexpensive potting mixes *Make compost and explain how you made it. *Learn how to identify plants effectively. *Explain step by step how you would go about planting shrubs in your own locality. *Explain how to transplant and transport plants from one propertyu to another. *Determine the tools required to do gardening for a property, using a limited supply of money. *Explain characteristics of soil, including: Soil Structure, pH and Nutrient Deficiency *Describe how to fertilize a lawn *Explain how to improve drainage in a soil that is too wet for plants to do well in. *Explain how you would improve a specified soil *Identify a nutrient deficiency *Observe and identify different categories of pest and disease problems in growing plants. *Compile a weed collection with pressings or illustrations of different weeds *Compile a plant collection with pressings or illustrations of different weeds -Describe how environmental problems affect plants -Recommend ways of controlling different types opf problems in plants, using both natural and chemical. -Observe and evaluate different types of gardens. _Survey a garden in order to prepare a garden design. -Apply a systematic procedure to landscape design, in order to produce a concept plan for a garden. -Explain mistakes have you observe in the design and construction of different rockeries -Build a simple cold frame and us it to propagate plants. -Prepare propagating mix which would be suitable for striking most types of cuttings. -Propagate different plants from cuttings. -Prepare a plan for sowing annual flower seedlings over a 12 month period. -Evaluate and explain a lawn seed mix from the packaging of that mix -Observe different lawns and recommend their treatment -Explain how to establish a lawn -Observe and evaluate the condition of different indoor plants. -Recommend the treatment of different indoor plants. -Prepare lists of indoor plants for different applications. -Find an indoor plant which needs potting up & pot it up. -Plant a vegetable patch. -List fruit, nuts & berries most suited for growing in your locality -Observe the way in which herbs are used commercially (eg. in medicine, cooking etc) -Explain why crop rotation is used in growing vegetables?
This is a "blue ribbon" course for home gardeners who want the best! Payment Options Enrol now with an interest free weekly payment plan. |
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Become the gardening expert of your family with this comprehensive home gardening course.