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.

Home Gardner - Extra learning materialsKey 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
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Course Number 85000
Course Type Correspondence
Course Duration Max 18 months
Study Hours Approx 720 hrs
Qualification Cengage Certificate

Prerequisites

No previous knowledge or experience is required to take this course.

Assessment details

  • 10 multiple choice assessments
  • 4 written assessments

Extra learning materials included

  • Gregory's Australian Gardening - Textbook
  • St John Australian First Aid - Textbook

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