Home Garden Expert Course

Home Garden Expert

Course Info

This course has been producing garden experts since 1985 and whatever your reason for gardening, it will help you to garden more efficiently, effectively and confidently.

What will you achieve from this course?

The Home Garden Expert Course will enable you to identify, prune and classify plants as well as give you the knowledge to keep them in great condition, understand landscape design, propagate plants and control weeds, pests and disease.  You will also gain knowledge of vegetable, fruit, indoor plant and flower growing.

Lessons:

•     Basic Plant Identification & Culture - Plant names, planting, transplanting, tools & equipment.
•     Soils & Nutrition - Soil structure, nutrition, composting, soil building, drainage, fertilizers.
•     Pests & Weeds - Identifying problems, sprays, biological control, weed identification & control.
•     Landscaping - How to design a garden, rockeries, native gardens, traditional (European style) home gardens.
•     Propagation - Propagating materials, seed, cuttings.
•     Lawns - Turf varieties, laying a lawn, lawn care.
•     Indoor Gardening - Hardy indoor plants, container growing.
•     The Kitchen Garden - Vegetable gardening, fruit trees, herbs

Course Delivery

This course is able to be completed either online or by correspondence.

Work Load  | Full time: 12hrs per week |  Part time: 6hrs per week |  Total duration:  100hrs

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