Home Gardening Courses

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.


[More info & enrolment: Home Fruit Growing]

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!


[More info & enrolment: Home Garden Expert Course]
Learn how to grow delicious, fresh, healthy vegetables simply at home. You will learn such
things as:
  • 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.

[More info & enrolment: Home Vegetable Growing]

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.


[More info & enrolment: Landscaping Home Gardens]
 

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