INTEC Gardening and Horticulture Certificate

Course details

The INTEC Gardening and Horticulture Certificate has been entirely designed and authored in South Africa,so it deals with gardening the way you know it. Understand the way plants gorw, and how to optimise conditions for all types of garden plants. Special sections deal with flowers,ornamentals, pot plants and bulbs. You could become skilled at laying out gardens, irrigation,identifying nutrients needed in your garden, modifying soil types and combating pests and diseases.

Course Content

The course includes the following:

Tools and Equipment:
From small hand tools to irrigation equipment - we advise you on what tools you need, how to use and care for them.

Soil Preparation:
How to prepare beds for flowers, shrubs, trees, annuals, ground covers and vegetables; cultivating soil after planting.

Basic Plant Physiology:
All you need to know about the parts of a plant and how they work.

Basic Horticultural Practices:
How to mulch, cultivate and water the soil (including the use of nutrients and fertilises); the do's and don'ts of using lime.

Pest Identification and Control:
Extensive notes on pesticides; working safely with chemicals; environment-friendly remedies for dealing with pests and diseases.

Weed Identification and Control:
How to deal with weeds in your garden.

Container Gardening:
How to grow plants in containers (indoors and outdoors); growing plants in various light conditions; potting soil; hanging bowls and baskets.

Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs and Ground Covers:
All about plant groups and which plants are suitable for which areas in the garden.

Shrubs, Climbers, Form Plants, Palms and Trees:
How to successfully grow a wide variety of plants.