Gardening - Diploma Training Course in Gardening

Gardening is one of the fastest growing leisure pastimes for many good, practical reasons as well as the sense of enjoyment of it. There are many sound economic and organic reasons for getting the most out of your garden. Vegetables and fruit s taste better when they come from your own garden. There are good reasons why this is not a myth. Fruit and vegetables sold in the Supermarkets are generally subject to maximum production techniques which concentrate more on yield per acre than on consistently good quality and flavour.

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction

Unit 2: Garden Tools / Garden Design

Unit 3: The Perfect Lawn

Unit 4: Decorative Shrubs and Trees

Unit 5: Ponds / Pools

Unit 6: The Rose

Unit 7: Vegetables & Herbs

This course will introduce you to the principles and practices of modern gardening. It will develop your skills and help you to create the garden that you always wanted. Our course will help you to enjoy the shear pleasure that gardening can bring to your leisure time. You will get closer to nature, learn to create the garden you always wanted and as a bonus you will start to taste your own produce in due course.

How distance learning works:

Continuous Assessment

At the end of each unit, an assignment is completed and sent to your tutor at the college. Each one will be promptly returned to you with helpful comments and your next study unit. Throughout your course you will receive regular feedback and encouragement from your tutor to help ensure the successful completion of your studies.

Confidentiality

All your course work and any correspondence with the college will be treated as strictly private and confidential.

Textbook

An excellent textbook, carefully chosen by our course writers to compliment this study programme, will be sent to you with your first study units. This is yours to keep for future reference.

Our Diploma

Here at Kilroy's College, our Diploma is awarded to students based on their work throughout their course. So, on successful completion of all your written assignments, you will receive your Kilroy's College Diploma in Gardening.

The Future

Many of our students tell us that our courses have given them the confidence to go on to further study, to begin work or to change careers. Many of those in employment have received a promotion or an increase in salary as a result of completing a Kilroy's College course.

Advantages:

• The College is open all year, so you can start studying at any time.
• This Gardening course allows you the flexibility and confidentiality of studying at home without having to take time out from work or other personal commitments.
• It offers you valuable savings in time and transportation because you complete your entire course from home.
• Once enrolled, you will receive everything that you need to get started in your student study pack.