Roots to Fruit Professional Gardening Course
Tuesday 9:15am- 3:15pm Professional Gardening Course
On our Professional Gardening Course we aim to give you the skills to maintain gardens within a professional setting. We go out into the local community to maintain private gardens and public spaces giving you the confidence skills and knowledge to start either your own gardening business, work for a gardening company or maintain your own garden.
There is the opportunity to gain a qualification from ABC Awards with the training centre’s award winning horticultural lecturer, Jon Ensell. Various qualifications are available along with subjects to study. This course is available as a professional course only. Subsidised volunteer places available subject to terms and conditions.
Range of skills and subjects avaialble to develop:
- General garden maintenance tasks
- Weeding borders
- Mulching
- Pruning (working at heights restrictions apply)
- Weeding sweeping and tidying paths and paved areas
- Restoring decking, fences and wooden structures.
- Tidying leaves and debris
- Garden Clearance
- Planting
- Grass seeding and turf laying
- Mowing lawns
Before we took this Now the borders are
garden on the weeds had being cultivated, they
taken over are clear of weeds and all of
the plants are shaped/pruned
plus the lawn is edged