This Urban Gardening course is designed to give you all the information you need to start a garden in an urban area. Upon completing the course, not only will you be ready to create a garden from scratch, you will know how to keep up and expand your garden year after year.
This course includes everything from choosing a location for your urban garden to collecting seeds from your garden for the following years. We have created this course to ensure that you understand what creating an urban garden entails and how to care for the garden you create.
The course is online and provides you with a convenient way to study the course material when it is most convenient for your schedule. Students who take the course still have time to continue working.
You will have access to the urban garden course material from your computer or any mobile device with internet access. We also offer access to online support 24/7.
When you complete the course, you will obtain a course certificate, which proves that you have successfully completed the Urban Gardening course. You can download the certificate from home, or we can post it to you for a fee.
What you will learn
We created this Urban Gardening course to offer students a full overview of how to create an urban garden. When you complete the course, you will be ready to create an urban garden of your own.
The course covers the following information:
- A history of urban gardening
- Choosing the right location for your urban garden
- Determining how much sun your garden gets
- The tools and supplies you need for your garden
- Understanding plant hardiness
- The difference between annuals and perennials
- Creating a budget for your garden
- Appropriate plants for urban gardens
- Preparing the soil for an urban garden
- Crop rotation
- Watering and fertilising
- Tackling weeds, pests and disease
- How to transplant plants
- Creating compost for your urban garden
- Preserving fruits and veg
- Drying flowers and collecting seeds
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Course content
5 modules · 8 hours of learning
- Module 1: Introduction to Urban Gardens
- Module 1: Introduction to Urban Gardens
- Urban Gardening Module 1 Recap Test
- Module 2: Choosing Plants for your Urban Garden
- Module 2: Choosing Plants for your Urban Garden
- Urban Gardening Module 2 Recap Test
- Module 3: Planting and Maintaining an Urban Garden
- Module 3: Planting and Maintaining an Urban Garden
- Urban Gardening Module 3 Recap Test
- Module 4: Caring for and Getting More Out of an Urban Garden
- Module 4: Caring for and Getting More Out of an Urban Garden
- Urban Gardening Module 4 Recap Test
- Module 5: Beyond the Urban Garden
- Module 5: Beyond the Urban Garden
- Urban Gardening Module 5 Recap Test
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