Home Vegetable Growing
| Course Code | AHT102 |
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| Fee Code | S1 |
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| Number of Assignments | 8 |
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| Duration (approx) | 100 hours |
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There are many different ways you can grow vegetables; and an almost endless range of varieties to choose from. The method you choose and the varieties you grow should depend upon the time, space, level of knowledge and other resources available to you.
This course teachess you many different ways of growing, and what is needed for just about every vegetable you can think of.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The course is divided into eight lessons as follows:
The eight lessons are as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Cultivation and Planting
3. Review of Major Vegetable Varieties
4. Pest, Disease and Weed Control
5. Hydroponic and Greenhouse Growing
6. Lesser Grown Varieties and Herbs
7. Irrigation
8. Harvesting, Storing and Using Vegetables
AIMS
- Identify a range of different vegetables
- Determine sources and significance for information on vegetable growing
- Describe the planting and cultivation of a range of different vegetables.
- Describe production of some of the varieties of vegetable which are widely and commonly grown by home gardeners.
- Evaluate and determine treatments for a range of common pest, disease and weed problems that affect vegetables
- Determine and describe methods for producing a range of vegetable crops out of season.
- Describe production of some of the varieties of vegetable which are less commonly grown by home gardeners.
- Determine and describe ways of managing the water needs of vegetables in a home garden.
- Describe when and how to harvest different types of vegetable crops.
- Describe a range of methods for storing and using vegetables after harvest.
DURATION: 100 hours
WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE
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
Learn how to grow delicious, fresh, healthy vegetables simply at home. You will learn such
things as:
- How to build a vegie garden.
- Cultivation and planting.
- The main types of vegetables.
- How to make great compost.
- Pest, disease and weed control.
- Hydroponic and greenhouse growing.
- Herbs and uncommon vegetable varieties.
- Watering and irrigation systems.
- Harvesting, storing and using vegetables.