
For the price of 100-hour course, the Lawn and Garden Care business bundle includes -
100-hour tutor facilitated Garden Maintenance course
There are 10 lessons in this course:
1. Introduction Planning and Managing a garden.
Cost of Maintenance
Expensive and Less Expensive areas of a garden
Planning
Garden Checklists
Analyzing Maintenance of Parks and Gardens
Organising Garden Maintenance Staff
2. Garden Furnishings and Machinery
What Tool for What Job
Overview of Machinery
Mowers and How to Mow
Aerators, Chippers, Mechanised Sprayers, Chain Saws, Brush Cutters, etc.
Tractors
Tool Maintenance
Engine Troubleshooting
Outdoor Furniture -plastic, timber, metal
Protecting Furnishings -paints, stains, preservatives
3. Feeding Plants
Symptoms of Nutritional and other Problems
Conducting an Inspection of Plants
Soil Characteristics and identification of Soil Issues
Review of Plant Nutrition
Choosing the Right Fertiliser
Diagnosing Nutritional Problems
Improving soils
4. Weed Control
Nature and Scope of Weed Problems
Natural Ways to Control Weeds -suffocation, burning, cultivation, etc
Common groups of weeds and options for treating and recognising different weed varieties.
5. Weedicides
How Weeds Spread
Types of chemicals found in weedicides and suitable weedicide
Which chemical would control the weed.
Chemicals and the Law
6. Natural Pest Control
Scope and Nature of Natural Controls
Cultural Controls
Mechanical Control Methods
Physical Control Methods
Methods for controlling selected insects
Companion Planting
Common Environmental Problems
Tolerance Levels in different plants
Biological Controls
Natural Sprays
Buffer Zones
Mulching
7. Chemical Pest Control
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Ways of Applying Chemicals
Safety with Chemicals
Understanding Pesticides -toxicity, LD50, Persistence, etc.
Specific chemical treatments and a summary of pesticides.
8. Turf Management
Common Turf Problems
Turf Pests
Chemical Damage
Establishment and Maintenance of Lawns
Mowing, Fertilizing, Aeration, etc
Turf varieties, appropriate turf for specific areas, low and high maintenance turf.
9. Irrigation
Importance of Water
Water Loss from different soils & Improving Water retention
Understanding Water Dynamics in soil
Irrigation -types of systems
Planning an irrigation system
Using an irrigation system
Controlling slippery surfaces
10. Maintenance of Plants
Why Prune
Before Pruning
Time of Pruning -does it matter?
What to consider when pruning
Removing Dead Wood
Controlling shape and size
How to prune different types of plants
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Plus BONUS 20-hour online course
Lawn Mowing and Turf Care course {course description linked here}
Plus 4 BONUS eBooks
- Plants Pests & Diseases
- Starting a Landscaping or Gardening Business
- Compost & Mulching
- What to Plant Where