Practical Horticulture Level 2 Diploma
Start Date | 02/09/2024
Time/Day | TUE/WED/TH
Is this course for me?
If you have a passion for practical outdoors lifestyles and love to learn about plants and how things grow, a Horticulture course could be for you. We focus on developing your skills and knowledge to gain employment in this expanding industry. You will learn about garden maintenance and design, plant propagation and sustainable horticulture.What will I study?
How long is the course?
How will I be assessed?
What qualifications do I need?
What can I progress onto?
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Course Fees
16-18 Year Olds | 19+ year olds | Free for eligible learners? | Is Loan Available? |
£497.00 |
Exam Fee
Horticultural Trades
Horticultural trades workers intensively cultivate vegetables, plants, fruit, shrubs, trees and flowers in greenhouses, market gardens, nurseries and orchards.
Requirements: Level 2 NVQ; GCSE at grades A*-C
Opportunities
What could you earn
Typical Tasks
- Supports trees by staking and wiring.
- Prunes and thins trees and shrubs.
- Propagates plants by taking cuttings and by grafting and budding, applies weed-killer, fungicide and insecticide to control pests and diseases.
- Sows seeds and bulbs and transplants seedlings.
- Mixes soil, composts, fertilisers and/or organic matter and spreads fertiliser and manure.
- Prepares soil in field, bed or pot by hand or machine.
Knowledge
Skills
Gardeners and Landscape Gardeners
Gardeners and landscape gardeners cultivate flowers, trees, shrubs and other plants in public and private gardens, construct features to improve the appearance of existing terrain, and cut and lay turf.
Requirements: Level 2 NVQ; GCSE at grades A*-C
Opportunities
What could you earn
Typical Tasks
- Performs general garden maintenance.
- Moves soil to alter surface contour of land using mechanical equipment and constructs paths, rockeries, ponds and other features.
- Prepares or interprets garden design plans.
- Cuts and lays turf using hand and machine tools and repairs damaged turf.
- Protects plants from pests and diseases.
- Prepares soil and plants and transplants, prunes, weeds and otherwise tends plant life.
- Levels ground and installs drainage system as required.
Knowledge
Skills
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