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.
Over ten lessons, learn how to effectively maintain a garden while reducing the amount of time, labour and costs involved.
Course Structure:
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 10 in-depth lessons:
- Introduction – Planning and managing a garden.
Instructs how to develop a sensible maintenance program for any garden ? big or small. - 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 – Develops an understanding of turf varieties, appropriate turf for specific areas, low and high maintenance turf.
- Irrigation. – Details on Irrigation, appropriate Irrigation systems and watering for plants.
- Maintenance of Plants – Overall areas to consider when dealing with plant care, maintenance of a complete garden area.
How does a Warnborough Online Course work?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
If you have any questions please contact us.
