Home Gardening Courses

Learn to Grow Fruit at Home -Distance Education Course

• Start any time, study from anywhere at your owen pace
• Expert, experienced and highly qualified tutors
• Learn what grows easiest and best in your locality and how to get the best from those plants in a small space.

To pick and eat fruit from your own garden is a wonderful, healthy and satisfying experience.
This course aims to expand your capacity to do just that.
You, like every other student in this course, will have your own very specific desires and needs when embarking upon this course. From the outset, please understand that the course notes are only part of what you will potentially learn. The experiences you have through your set tasks, and if you choose, the use of the school’s many support services can provide you with a range of varied learning experiences according to your own specific needs.

Garden Course -Online Course -Distance Education 

• Become the gardening expert in your family (and neighbourhood)
• Learn to grow and identify healthy, plants
• Avoid wasting money -choose plants and materials that give you value
• Enjoy home gardening with new confidence and passion

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 both reading and practical work. 
 

 This is a "blue ribbon" course for home gardeners who want the best!

Learn to Propagate Plants with a Distance Learning Course
This course aims to develop a basic understanding of the principles of plant propagation, an overview of propagation techniques, equipment and a general knowledge of the methods of propagation of the more commonly cultivated plants. It is a great base for growing your own plants and is a skill  that you will have with you for the rest of your life. You will also be able to use it to teach others.

"Learning about propagating your own plants will save you loads of money and give you a great hobby. Some of the toughest and most beautiful gardens I have seen were created with home made cuttings. Horticultural experts will show you how.” - Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming, ACS Tutor.

• How to build a vegie garden.
• Cultivation and planting.
• The main types of vegetables.
• How to make great compost.
• Pest, disease and weed control.
• Hydroponic and greenhouse growing.
• Herbs and uncommon vegetable varieties.
• Watering and irrigation systems.
• Harvesting, storing and using vegetables.

Lots of people are keen to grow their own food, and this course helps them gain the skills required to create their own vegetable gardens. It is easy to understand, practical, and can be adapted to your own garden requirements.”- Tracey Morris Dip.Hort., Cert.Hort., Cert III Organic Farming, ACS Tutor.

WHAT VEGIES ARE EASIER TO GROW.... Click trough to see Vegie Growing Hints from our staff

Develop Landscaping Ideas

• Learn to produce a Landscaping Plan
• Study backyard landscaping, front yard landscaping, landscaping plants

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 landscape construction, weeds & pests, planting & pruning, lawns & other surfacings, garden features, plus a special project to help you develop your own garden  This course is 100% for home gardeners. While our other courses can certainly be relevant to home gardeners; they are generally considered as more oriented toward the "business" of landscaping; or those working in the industry.