Overview
Have a healthy looking garden year round. Proper garden maintenance will cost you both time and money. Fortunately, there are shortcuts to help you have a good-looking garden without spending a huge amount of time or money on your property.
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.
What you will learn
Over ten lessons, you will learn how to effectively maintain a garden while reducing the amount of time, labour and costs involved. This Garden Maintenance course from Warnborough College was designed for garden horticulturalists, gardeners and garden owners.
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- Garden Furnishings and Machinery – Develops an understanding of power tools used for maintaining a garden and also furnishings
- Feeding Plants – Details areas involving plant care: nutrition, improving soils, cation exchange & pH, plant nutrition
- Weed Control- this lesson goes through weed control methods, common groups of weeds and options for treating and recognising different weed varieties
- Weedicides – Types of chemicals found in weedicides and suitable weedicides, which would control the weed
- 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
- Chemical Pest Control – Advises on safety procedures when using agricultural chemicals, specific chemical treatments and a summary of pesticides
- Turf Management
- Irrigation.
- Maintenance of Plants
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Agriculture Horticulture and Crop Science Botany View 58 other Short Courses in Agriculture in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Tuition Fee
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International
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.