Learn how you can extend the growing season by expanding your cut flower range and supplying markets year-round. This is a diverse course for the serious grower.

Select your crop and use appropriate equipment and techniques to get a viable commercial outcome. Develop your ability to select and cultivate appropriate varieties of cut flowers in greenhouses.

Course Aims:

• Describe the nature and scope of cut flower production in greenhouses
• Determine key cultural practices that are commonly required to develop and maintain a good rate of growth in a cut flower crop
• Explain the initiation and development of flowering in a cut flower crop
• Determine management practices for cut flower crops grown in a greenhouse
• Discuss a range of greenhouse management techniques related to cut flower production
• Explain a range of greenhouse management techniques related to cut flower production
• Determine a range of harvest and post-harvest techniques related to cut flower production
• Determine greenhouse production techniques for selected herbaceous perennials
• Determine greenhouse production techniques for selected annuals and biennials
• Determine greenhouse production techniques for selected bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers
• Determine greenhouse production techniques for selected filler plants
• Determine greenhouse production techniques for roses and orchids