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Shirley's Pond

The Course Contents

1. LAWNS AND GRASSLANDS (PART 1)

  • Sites - Clearing, levelling and preparation for planting a lawn
  • Different kinds of lawns and their uses
  • Grass seeds, principal grass genera and species used in lawn seed mixtures and their characteristics
  • Sowing, after care and maintenance
2. LAWNS AND GRASSLANDS (PART 2)

  • Maintenance of lawns
  • Floral meadows
  • Lawn weeds

3. HOW PLANTS WORK

  • Cells
  • Roots
  • Stems
  • Leaves
  • Buds
  • Other structures

4. VEGETABLES

  • Siting vegetables, Soil and fertility, Drainage
  • The vegetable garden (layout)
  • Climate
  • Cropping
  • Seeds
  • Sowing vegetables
  • Thinning, Planting
  • Water, Feeding
  • Weeds, Mulching, Crop protection

5. ORNAMENTAL PLANTS AND PROPAGATION

  • The different types of flowering plants
  • Propagation methods

6. SOIL

  • Types of soil
  • Structure
  • Mulches
  • Fertilisers
  • Organic matter and manures
  • Base and top dressings
  • Lime
  • Water

7. TREES AND SHRUBS

  • Trees
  • Shrubs
  • Climbers

8. FLOWERS

  • General structure
  • Sepals and petals
  • Stamens
  • The Carpel - ovary, style and stigma
  • Types of inflorescence
  • Nectaries

9. POLLINATION AND FERTILISATION

  • Pollination
  • Fertilisation
  • Fruit

10. FRUIT

  • Types of fruit
  • Planting and requirements
  • Cultivation
  • Pruning

11. GENETICS AND BREEDING

  • The genetic code
  • Chromosomes
  • Genes
  • Mitosis and Meiosis
  • Mendelian inheritance
  • Mono and dihybrid inheritance
  • Genotype and phenotype
  • F1 hybrids (hybrid vigour)
  • Heterozygosity and homozygosity
  • Dominance and recessiveness

12. PESTS, DISEASES AND DISORDERS

  • Damage caused by pests, diseases and disorders
  • Identification, symptoms and modes of attack
  • Control - Chemical
  • Control - Biological
  • Control - organic
  • A large pest
  • A mollusc
  • Insects with incomplete metamorphosis and complete metamorphosis
  • A mite
  • A nematode
  • A fungus
  • A virus
  • A bacteria
  • Environmental disorder
  • Nutritional disorder

13. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

  • Photosynthesis
  • Respiration
  • Photoperiodism
  • Nutrient cycles

14. PLANT PROTECTION AND ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS

  • Plant protection
  • Why protect?
  • Types of protection
  • Controlling environmental factors
  • Artificial environments
  • Container growing - air filled porosity, stability
  • Non-soil growing mediums - composts, loam and non-loam based
  • Types of containers, modules
  • Hydroponics

15. WATER

  • Transpiration
  • Uptake of water by plant roots
  • Conduction of water
  • Relative humidity
  • Turgor - permanent wilting point
  • Water in the soil - availability, field capacity
  • Soil structure, water and nutrients

16. WEEDS

  • What are weeds? Invasive plants, cultivated plants as weeds, and why they are successful
  • Types of weed
  • Treatments and control - organic, chemical and biological

17. ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

  • A brief background to ecology
  • Changes in agricultural practices and their effects
  • Conservation in the garden
  • Encouraging wildlife and ‘green’ practices
  • Large-scale practices to help

18. GARDEN PLANNING – PART 1

  • The importance of safe, healthy and environmentally sustainable practices
  • Basic surveying techniques
  • Site appraisal and collection of data for planting purposes

19. GARDEN PLANNING – PART 2

  • The skill of designing
  • Schematic planning
  • Structures in the garden

20. PREPARING FOR THE EXAM

21. LEGAL ISSUES
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