Get it Right and Get Your Vegetables Growing!
Nothing compares to the satisfaction of growing and cooking with your own fresh vegetables. Studying Home Vegetable Growing online with Careerline will help you to plan, establish, and maintain your own home vegetable garden. You’ll develop vital skills that will help you to give your vegetable garden the best chance of success.
What will you learn?
This Home Vegetable Growing course will introduce you to several methods of growing your own vegetables. You will learn how to cultivate and plant your first vegetables, and how to select the right vegetables for your needs. In addition, you will develop an understanding of controlling and treating pests, weeds, and disease in your vegetable crop.
During your studies, you will learn how to grow a variety of common and lesser known vegetables, as well as herbs. You will study growing methods like hydroponics and greenhouse growing that will help you grow your favourited vegetables even when they are out of season. Home Vegetable Growing students also learn about garden irrigation and watering.
Finally, students learn how to correctly harvest and store vegetables using methods including bottling, pickling, freezing, blanching, and making chutneys and sauces.
Who is this online Home Vegetable Growing course for?
The Home Vegetable Growing course is designed for home gardeners who want to learn more about growing their own vegetables. Gardeners of all levels of experience will learn something new from this course. In addition, educators, garden retail professionals, landscapers, nutritionists, and other horticultural professionals will benefit from studying Home Vegetable Growing. Your new skillset will help you to provide higher quality services to your clients and customers.
This course is also designed for anyone interested in pursuing further studies in horticulture, plant science, food science, nutrition, landscaping, or gardening. You will be introduced to concepts covered in vocational and university courses, so you will feel prepared and confident as you continue your academic and professional journey.
Course Aims:
- Compile a resource file of organisations related to home vegetable growing
- Compile reviews of sixteen different vegetables suitable for growing at home
- Carry out basic soil tests on two different soils
- Obtain or make up a propagating mix
- Make a vegetable garden
- Identify weed species in a vegetable garden and suggest control methods
- Make notes about pests and diseases in a home vegetable garden
- Contact several chemical suppliers and obtain brochures or technical information sheets on weedicides and pesticides appropriate for use on vegetable crops
- Contact a few greenhouse companies and obtain both literature and current prices
- Either write to or visit a company (or companies) which supply irrigation equipment.
- Obtain catalogues, brochures, etc
- Try drying, bottling or freezing a vegetable you have not preserved before.
- List 20 different vegetables with information about their culture and harvest
There are 8 lessons in this course:
1. Introduction
2. Cultivating and Planting
3. Major Vegetable Varieties
4. Pest, Disease and Weed Control
5. Hydroponic and Greenhouse Growing
6. Lesser Grown Varieties
7. Irrigation
8. Harvesting, Storing, and Using Vegetables
This course is recommended with Home Fruit Growing and/or Home Propagation to get the most out of your garden.