CONTENT

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.

Duration: 100 hours

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS COURSE?
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?


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