Distance Learning Garden Mainatenance Course
"Learning effective design and management of a garden".
" I really appreciate Gavin's (tutor) comments and look forward to receiving the feedback from him."
- Nadine
We usually think of garden maintenance as a summer priority when lawns, weeds and plants grow vigorously but even in winter a garden may deteriorate without regular maintenance.
Plants that are fed well are healthier, resist disease and pest problems, and generally require less maintenance. If a plant is unhealthy, it may be because of a lack of good nutrition, but it can just as easily be because of something else. Healthy plants resist pest and disease problems.
Heat, cold, wind, rain, frost, shade, pollution and other environmental problems can have disastrous effects on plants. Plant varieties vary in their tolerance of these conditions, for example the heat which might kill one plant may simply slow the growth of another. Some plants are very adaptable others not.
Over ten lessons learn how to effectively maintain a garden while reducing the amount of time, labour and costs involved.
Duration: 100 hours
COURSE STRUCTURE
This course consists of 10 lessons:
1. Introduction - Planning and managing a garden.
Instructs how to develop a sensible maintenance program for any garden – big or small.
2. Garden Furnishings and Machinery. – Develops an understanding of power tools used for maintaining a garden and also furnishings.
3. Feeding Plants - Details areas involving plant care – nutrition , Improving soils, Cation exchange & pH , Plant Nutrition
4. Weed Control- this lesson goes through weed control methods, common groups of weeds and options for treating and recognising different weed varieties.
5. Weedicides – Types of chemicals found in weedicides and suitable weedicides, which would control the weed.
6. Natural Pest Control. – Goes through advantages and disadvantages of chemical and non- chemical pest control. Goes through natural controlling methods for pest and diseases. Teaches how to identify and solve specific problems
7. Chemical Pest Control - Advises on safety procedures when using agricultural chemicals, specific chemical treatments and a summary of pesticides.
8. Turf Management. – Develops an understanding of turf varieties, appropriate turf for specific areas, low and high maintenance turf.
9. Irrigation. - Details on Irrigation, appropriate Irrigation systems and watering for plants.
10. Maintenance of Plants - Overall areas to consider when dealing with plant care, maintenance of a complete garden area.
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
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How Long will it take to complete the course?
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