Home Gardener

Pursue your love of gardening.

People aren’t born with green thumbs. Like all skills, prowess in the garden takes practice and research.

The Cengage Education Home Gardener course takes students step by step through the fundamentals of gardening to help you design, construct and maintain your own garden.

You’ll learn everything about trees, shrubs, crop varieties and lawn, from planting, propagation and pruning, to building a retaining wall.

The course extends to show you how to use plants to their best advantage, to create a visually stunning garden.

On completion of your course:

Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Cengage Education Home Gardener Certificate.

Key areas of learning:

  • Plant health maintenance
  • Pruning shrubs & small trees
  • Above ground pruning
  • Tree care
  • Felling small trees
  • Maintain & harvest a crop
  • Plants, product & treatment recognition
  • Retaining walls
  • Special gardens
  • Propagation & garden hygiene
  • Soil & fertilisers
  • Flowers & lawns
  • Fruit & vegetables
* Terms and conditions apply
Course Number 85000
Course Type Correspondence
Course Duration Max 18 months
Study Hours Approx 720 hrs
Qualification Cengage Certificate

Assessment details

  • 10 multiple choice assessments
  • 4 written assessments

Extra learning materials included

  • St John Australian First Aid - Textbook

Entry requirements
Cengage Certificate, Statements of Attainment, Certificate I & Certificate II courses

No entry requirements apply to these courses.

English Language Requirements:

If English is your second language and you did not complete the last two years of secondary education in English you are required to provide evidence of English language competence before enrolling. Examples of appropriate evidence are:

Evidence

Example

IELTS

Overall score of 5.5

TOEFL

530 (paper), 197 (computer) or 71 Internet.

Evidence of employment in an English speaking country.

12 month period of employment: Letters of Appointment, Letters of Reference, Testimonials, Performance Appraisals etc

Not sure if you meet the entry requirements?
Please call 1300 853 033


Subjects You’ll Cover

Plant health maintenance

  • Monitor factors that influence plant health
  • Diagnose plant health problems
  • Remedy plan health problems
  • Evaluate treatment programs

Pruning shrubs & small trees

  • Identify plants that require pruning
  • Determine pruning needs
  • Select appropriate tools & equipment for pruning
  • Check assess to pruning sites

Above ground pruning

  • Perform remedial & corrective pruning of trees
  • Procedures for safe work practices in above ground pruning

Tree care

  • Modify trees to alleviate stress
  • Modify the environment to maintain the health & vigor of trees
  • Application of treatments
  • Installation of root barriers

Felling small trees

  • Determine the safest direction for the tree
    to be felled
  • Remove obstruction within the fall zone
  • Bring down the tree
  • Clear the felled tree from the site

Maintain & harvest a crop

  • Watering crops
  • Monitor environmental factors
  • Observe plant condition
  • Determine the optimum time to harvest a crop
  • Harvest a crop

Plants, product & treatment recognition

  • Recognise & name plants
  • Recognise products, services & horticultural treatments
  • Habits & features of plants

Retaining walls

  • Plan & prepare site
  • Prepare footings to given dimensions
  • Prepare for construction & install components

Special gardens

  • Preparation of a damp garden
  • Categories of rock gardens
  • Construction of concrete garden pools
  • Installing aquatic plants

Propagation & garden hygiene

  • Grafting & budding
  • Cutting & layering
  • Pests, diseases & weeds
  • Types of hydroponic systems
  • Nutritional disorders

Soil & fertilisers

  • Mineral & organic matter
  • Soil, air, soil water & soil temperatures
  • Soil nutrients
  • Types of fertilisers
  • Lime, soil reaction & pH

Flowers & lawns

  • Climbers & cultural requirements
  • Planning a rose garden
  • Pre-planting care of flowers
  • Warm & cold climate grass
  • Lawn problems & alternatives

Fruit & vegetables

  • Selection & purchase of fruit trees
  • Planting & pruning of fruit trees
  • Pests, diseases & deficiencies
  • Vegetables & climatic requirements
  • Seeds & seedlings
  • Sowing, planting & harvesting of vegetables

* Fortnightly payment plans also available –     call our Sales team on 1300 853 033 .

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