Learn the processes required to tap into the commercial organic vegetable market. This extensive course provides a wealth of knowledge and practical skills and shows you how to market your produce.
Learn all aspects of organic vegetable production.
- Gain practical knowledge in this growing industry.
- Enhance your job prospects.
- Study in your own time at your own pace.
Organic vegetables are crops with a future. The demand for organically grown vegetables is presently a major growth area in commercial horticulture. This course is a great starting point in learning all aspects of organic vegetable production.
Course Aims:
- Discuss general horticulture and plant taxonomy principles
- Describe a range of cultivation and planting techniques
- Explain soil properties, and their relationship to organic plant production
- Diagnose basic soil nutrient deficiencies
- Discus major and minor commercial vegetable varieties
- Describe a variety of pest and disease management principles
- Explain the use of seed in commercial organic agriculture, including storage, viability, germination, genetic purity, and hybridisation
- Discuss the principles of greenhouse growing
- Describe a variety of irrigation methods suitable for organic vegetable production
- Explain organic weed control methods
- Explain issues relating to harvesting and marketing of vegetables