Home Vegetable Growing

Overview

In this Home Vegetable Growing course from Warnborough College you will learn such things as how to build a veggie garden, cultivation and planting, the main vegetables, how to make compost, pest, disease and weed control, hydroponic and greenhouse growing, herbs and uncommon vegetable varieties, watering and irrigation systems, harvesting, storing and using vegetables.

Course aims

• Compile a resource file of organisations related to home vegetable growing

• Compile reviews of sixteen different vegetables suitable for growing at home

• Carry out basic soil tests on two different soils

• Obtain or make up a propagating mix

• Make a vegetable garden

• Identify weed species in a vegetable garden and suggest control methods

• Make notes about pests and diseases in a home vegetable garden

• contact several chemical suppliers and obtain brochures or technical information sheets on weedicides and pesticides appropriate for use on vegetable crops

• contact a few greenhouse companies and obtain both literature and current prices

• Either write to or visit a company (or companies) which supply irrigation equipment. Obtain catalogues, brochures, etc.

• Try drying, bottling or freezing a vegetable you have not preserved before.

• List 20 different vegetables with information about their culture and harvest