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Home Gardening Courses

Courses in Home Gardening: Home Gardening is the practical application of plant growing. Plants can be grown for their pleasing appearance and perfume if they are flowers, or for providing your family in nutritious home grown delicious vegetables. You may wish to learn how to home propagate or how to redesign your own garden. The courses in Home Gardening which we offer range from Fruit Growing to Landscaping Home Gardens.
Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Become skilled in weed management. Learn to identify and effectively control more than 100 weeds, to design management strategies and programs and apply control techniques efficiently and safely. Here, you learn about both chemical and non-chemical control methods (mulching, burning, mowing), the use of spray equipment and safety procedures which should be followed. Course Structure […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Produce optimum turf! A comprehensive introduction to the identification, selection, culture and management of turf for commercial, recreational or home use. Taking approximately 100 hours to complete it is suitable as a basic course for people working with turf, such as on a golf course or bowling green, or for keen amateurs who wish to […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Become expert at maintaining your garden! Maintain a garden in perfect conditions in the most efficient way! Save time and resources and have the most beautiful garden nonetheless. Over ten lessons, you learn how to effectively maintain a garden while reducing the amount of time, labour and costs involved. A course for garden horticulturalists, gardeners […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Learn to design and manage water gardens. Develop your skills in designing, constructing and maintaining a variety of different types of water gardens. Course Structure for Water Gardening BHT307 Aims of  Water Gardening BHT307 Understand the nature and scope of water gardens Identify and describe generic construction materials and techniques suitable for water gardens and […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

NEW. Garden History will enlighten you, and vastly expand the scope of possibilities you have before you as a modern garden designer. Learn about the history of our great gardens and gardeners. Study the history of gardens and understand how gardens have evolved over the centuries, and broaden your perspective on what is possible and […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Design your ideal garden! Learn how to plan, lay out and construct your own home garden. Whether you want a garden which you can work in, play in or simply look at and feel proud of, then this course is for you. Topics covered include: designing gardens, styles of gardens, drawing plans, understanding soils, basic […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Achieve expert plant propogation at home! This subject aims to develop a basic understanding of the principles of plant propagation, an overview of propagation techniques and equipment and a general knowledge of the methods of propagation of the more commonly cultivated plants. Course Structure for Home Propagation AHT106 Aims of  Home Propagation AHT106 Obtain leaflets […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Create your ideal garden! Become the gardening expert of your family with this comprehensive home gardening course. This course contains hundreds of pages of notes, hundreds of photos and illustrations, and (for the online & CD version) large numbers of automated self assessment tests. Eight units each comprising 2 or 3 lessons. Each lesson involves […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Grow your own quality fruit! To pick and eat fruit from your own garden is a wonderful, healthy and satisfying experience. Expand your capacity to do just that on this course. From the outset, the course notes provided are only part of what you will potentially learn. The experiences you have through your set tasks […]

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Horticulture Course
Price:£325 Qualification: Certificate

Want to grow healthy food at home by using your own hydopnic system – look no further? This is one of our biggest selling courses, and has been studied by many happy hydroponic food growers. Course Structure for Home Hydroponics AHT107 Aims of  Home Hydroponics AHT107 Describe the nature and scope of hydroponic growing in […]

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