Nursery Growers - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Nursery Growers Course Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Nursery Growers Course online: Learn How to Grow Plants Successfully in a wholesale or retail Nursery. Specialist skills are required to maximise growth of plants in nurseries. You will need to know how to identify, propagate using different techniques to suit, maintain good soil conditions, plus protect plants from pests and disease. This comprehensive course will help you acquire all the attributes required to be a competent nursery grower.

• Grow your passion into any size business you want
• Use local markets to help distribute your plants.
• Use the internet to sell online or through traditional mail order
• Become a suppler of plants to your local retailers, the landscape industry or many more outlets.

There are many possibilities as to where you can apply the detailed knowledge, you'll acquire from completing this course. And with the help from your personally assigned mentor, you will get all the support you will need to get the most out of your studies.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure:

1 Plant Identification and Culture

• Plant Names
• Levels of Division
• Terminology
• Pronunciation of Plant Names
• Botanical Families of Genera
• Growing Plants in a Greenhouse
• Siting Greenhouses
• Greenhouse Benches and Beds
• Cladding Materials and Their Properties
• Greenhouse Checklist
• Shade Houses
• Environmental Factors That Influence Plant Growth
• Temperature Control
• Heat Loss
• Localised Heaters
• Greenhouse Cooling
• Ventilators
• Carbon Dioxide
• Light Factors - Lighting Equipment
• Artificial Light
• Plant Needs
• Problems With Greenhouses
• Optimum Growth Requirements for Certain Plants
• Plants and Water
• The Nursery Irrigation Program
• Greenhouse Irrigation Equipment and Methods
• Weeds and Steps in Controlling
• Weed Control in Greenhouses
• Recommended Weedicides For Use in a Nursery

2 Plant Propagation Techniques

• Methods of Propagating Plants
• Hormone Treatment of Cuttings
• Other Chemical Treatments
• Propagation Media
• Mixes/Substrates For Striking Cuttings/Starting Seed
• Cold Frames
• Heated Propagators
• Containers
• What is a Perched Water Table?
• Comparing Materials
• Problems With Containers
• Labels
• Stakes, Trellises and Trainers
• Plant Selection
• Shrubs Which Withstand Wet Soils
• Shrubs Which Withstand Very Wet Soils
• Shrubs Which Grow in shaded Areas
• Shrubs Suited to Coastal Areas
• Shrubs Suited to Cold Areas (Resisting frost and cold winters)
• Elements in the Garden that influence Plant Selection
• Creating Moods with Plants
• Selecting Plants For Us in Horticultural Solutions
• Colourful Year-Round Foliage
• Annual and Herbaceous Plants
• Types of Annual Plants
• Selecting Herbaceous Plants
• Selecting Woody Plants
• Trees
• Problems With Trees
• Deciduous or Semi-Deciduous Trees
• Deciduous Trees
• Guide to Shrubs in the Landscape

3 Soils and Nutrition

• The Soil
• Naming the Soil
• Improving Soils
• The Nutrient Elements
• Major Elements
• Minor Elements
• Total Salts
• Diagnosis of Nutritional Problems
• Potting Media
• Nursery Nutrition Management

4 Seed Propagation

• Sources of Seed
• Maintaining Genetic Identity in Seed
• Hybrid Seed Production
• Storing Seed
• Difficult seeds
• Dormancy Factors Affecting Germination
• Germination Treatments
• Sowing Seeds

5 Cutting Propagation

• Where to Get Your Cuttings
• Classification of Cuttings Types
• Types of Cuttings
• Variations
• More on Softwood Cuttings
• More on Semi-Hardwood Cuttings
• More on Hardwood Cuttings
• Taking Hardwood Cuttings: Evergreen
• Taking Hardwood Cuttings: Deciduous
• Production Systems
• Special Plant Treatments
• How to Maintain Plants in Pots
• Plant Modification to Achieve Uniformity
• Practical: Prepare a pot of cuttings and estimate the cost of production for each cutting produced

6 Pest and Diseases

• Horticultural Management in a Greenhouse
• The U.C. System and Minimising Disease
• Rules to Maintain Sanitation
• Integrated Pest Management
• Chemical Methods of Pest Control
• Non Chemical Methods
• Pests and Diseases
• List of Diseases: Diagnosis, Symptoms and Control
• Plant Viruses - Their Detection and Diagnosis
• Virus Control
• List of Pests: Identification/Signs, Symptoms and Control
• Environmental Problems
• Common Environmental Problems

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Horticulturalists, Garden Enthusiasts, Home Gardeners, Landscapers, Garden Designers.

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Studying horticulture creates a world potential for every nature lover in search of a career. Plants are one of the most important organisms in our world. We eat them, we grow them, we use them for ornamentation and even medicine.

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