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Home Garden Expert
ACS Distance Education

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About this course

There are 8 lessons in this course: Basic Plant Identification and Culture: Plant names, planting, transplanting, tools and equipment; Soils and Nutrition - Soil structure, nutrition, composting, soil building, drainage, fertilizers; Pests and Weeds - Identifying problems, sprays, biological control, weed identification and control; Landscaping - How to design a garden, rockeries, native gardens, traditional European style home gardens; Propagation - Propagating materials, seed, cuttings; Lawns - Turf varieties, laying a lawn, lawn care; Indoor Gardening - Hardy indoor plants, container growing; The Kitchen Garden - Vegetable gardening, fruit trees, herbs.

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Starting How long Days you attend Tutor Where Class info Price

Distance course
Any time

100 hours

You choose the days Not specified This is a distance learning course
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£273.00
per course

Course level

Advanced

Subject areas

Land Plant Life / Plant Identification, Plant Propagation / Breeding, Gardening

Course reference: AHT101 (use this when contacting provider)



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by Anon - 26-JUN-07

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by Margot - 27-SEP-07

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by Anon - 04-JUL-07

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