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