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