Why Study this Plant Health Course?

Interested in taking care of plants? Want to know how to keep various types of plants healthy? Then this course may just be the one you are looking for! This online plant health course will teach you all you need to know about plants’ health. Furthermore, this course will also teach you the different ways to control plant pests and diseases, the suitable spray equipment for different tasks, the environmental conditions that affect a plant’s health, and more.

Distance Learning Plant Health Course

“This advanced course specialises in care of plant health”.

Understand plant health.

Identify health problems in plants and techniques to control for those problems.

What Will This Course Do for You?

  • Improve your skills as a horticulture professional
  • Give you confidence as a professional gardener
  • Work as a pest and disease control contractor
  • Improve your garden and gardening skills
  • Help designers in better plant selection
  • Help nursery professionals improve the quality of the plants they produce

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction

  • Pests
  • Diseases
  • Common terminology
  • Diagnosing problems systematically
  • Tell tale symptoms
  • Conducting an inspection: four steps
  • Pest or disease reviews

2. Overview of Preventative Controls

  • Introduction
  • Methods of pest management
  • Integrated pest management
  • Cultural control
  • Using disease resistant varieties
  • Crop rotation
  • Timed planting
  • Mulching
  • Cleanliness
  • Biological control
  • Types of biological controls
  • Beneficial plants
  • Trap or decoy plants
  • Pheromone traps
  • Physical controls
  • Traps
  • Repellents
  • Mulching
  • Pruning
  • Wounds
  • Chemical controls
  • Understanding pesticides
  • Safely storing chemicals
  • Safely mixing chemicals
  • Legalities
  • Plant breeding for resistance
  • Sources and causes of resistance
  • Adaptability, resistance and pest variability

3. Insecticides

  • Types of insecticides: systemic, stomach poisons, contact poisons, etc
  • Inorganics, botanicals, organophosphates, carbamates, synthetic pyrethroids
  • Characteristics of insecticides: toxicity, spectrum, LD50, persistence, volatility, etc.
  • Golden rules for handling pesticides
  • Terminology

4. Other Pesticides

  • Chemical Pesticides: introduction
  • Review of common pesticides
  • Soil treatment for control of diseases
  • Soil pests
  • Types of fumigants
  • Systemic fungicides
  • Comparative toxicities

5. Spray Equipment

  • Types of sprayers
  • Uses of sprayers
  • Spray terminology
  • Sprayer maintenance and cleaning
  • Selecting a sprayer
  • Calibration
  • Using chemicals: agitation, clean up and disposal
  • Basic first aid with chemical pesticides
  • Response to liquid or powder spills
  • Keeping records
  • Misters, Dusters, Blowers
  • Pesticides and the environment

6. Insect Biology

  • Insect classification: orders, sub classes
  • Insect anatomy: mouthparts, legs, etc
  • Lifecycle
  • Feeding habits
  • Practical project: Insect collecting, preserving, identifying, for an insect collection
  • Common insects that a gardener encounters

7. Fungal Biology

  • What causes disease
  • Symptoms of disease
  • Lifecycle of a disease: inoculation, penetration, infection, growth and reproduction, dissemination
  • Fungi groups: obligate saprophytes, obligate parasites, facultative saprophytes, facultative parasites
  • Expanded concept of tree decay
  • Chemical pesticides in the UK and Europe
  • Common diseases

8. Environmental Problems

  • Common environmental problems
  • Foliage burns
  • Pollution
  • Lack of water
  • Drainage problems
  • Frost
  • Hail
  • Shade
  • Temperature
  • Wind
  • Symptoms of nutritional deficiencies
  • Air pollution
  • The plant and water
  • Non parasitic problems in turf (lawns)
  • Ways to provide environmental protection to plants

9. Viruses

  • Overview
  • Symptoms
  • Detection and diagnosis of viruses
  • Control
  • Examples of virus diseases

10. Nematodes, Mollusks, and Crustaceans

  • Overview
  • Millipedes
  • Plant nematodes
  • Nematodes in citrus
  • Red spider mites
  • Spiders
  • Slaters or wood lice
  • Snails and slugs

 

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  • Experienced Tutor support
  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

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      Why Study this Plant Health Course?

      Interested in taking care of plants? Want to know how to keep various types of plants healthy? Then this course may just be the one you are looking for! This online plant health course will teach you all you need to know about plants’ health. Furthermore, this course will also teach you the different ways to control plant pests and diseases, the suitable spray equipment for different tasks, the environmental conditions that affect a plant’s health, and more.

      Distance Learning Plant Health Course

      “This advanced course specialises in care of plant health”.

      Understand plant health.

      Identify health problems in plants and techniques to control for those problems.

      What Will This Course Do for You?

      • Improve your skills as a horticulture professional
      • Give you confidence as a professional gardener
      • Work as a pest and disease control contractor
      • Improve your garden and gardening skills
      • Help designers in better plant selection
      • Help nursery professionals improve the quality of the plants they produce

      There are 10 lessons in this course:

      1. Introduction

      • Pests
      • Diseases
      • Common terminology
      • Diagnosing problems systematically
      • Tell tale symptoms
      • Conducting an inspection: four steps
      • Pest or disease reviews

      2. Overview of Preventative Controls

      • Introduction
      • Methods of pest management
      • Integrated pest management
      • Cultural control
      • Using disease resistant varieties
      • Crop rotation
      • Timed planting
      • Mulching
      • Cleanliness
      • Biological control
      • Types of biological controls
      • Beneficial plants
      • Trap or decoy plants
      • Pheromone traps
      • Physical controls
      • Traps
      • Repellents
      • Mulching
      • Pruning
      • Wounds
      • Chemical controls
      • Understanding pesticides
      • Safely storing chemicals
      • Safely mixing chemicals
      • Legalities
      • Plant breeding for resistance
      • Sources and causes of resistance
      • Adaptability, resistance and pest variability

      3. Insecticides

      • Types of insecticides: systemic, stomach poisons, contact poisons, etc
      • Inorganics, botanicals, organophosphates, carbamates, synthetic pyrethroids
      • Characteristics of insecticides: toxicity, spectrum, LD50, persistence, volatility, etc.
      • Golden rules for handling pesticides
      • Terminology

      4. Other Pesticides

      • Chemical Pesticides: introduction
      • Review of common pesticides
      • Soil treatment for control of diseases
      • Soil pests
      • Types of fumigants
      • Systemic fungicides
      • Comparative toxicities

      5. Spray Equipment

      • Types of sprayers
      • Uses of sprayers
      • Spray terminology
      • Sprayer maintenance and cleaning
      • Selecting a sprayer
      • Calibration
      • Using chemicals: agitation, clean up and disposal
      • Basic first aid with chemical pesticides
      • Response to liquid or powder spills
      • Keeping records
      • Misters, Dusters, Blowers
      • Pesticides and the environment

      6. Insect Biology

      • Insect classification: orders, sub classes
      • Insect anatomy: mouthparts, legs, etc
      • Lifecycle
      • Feeding habits
      • Practical project: Insect collecting, preserving, identifying, for an insect collection
      • Common insects that a gardener encounters

      7. Fungal Biology

      • What causes disease
      • Symptoms of disease
      • Lifecycle of a disease: inoculation, penetration, infection, growth and reproduction, dissemination
      • Fungi groups: obligate saprophytes, obligate parasites, facultative saprophytes, facultative parasites
      • Expanded concept of tree decay
      • Chemical pesticides in the UK and Europe
      • Common diseases

      8. Environmental Problems

      • Common environmental problems
      • Foliage burns
      • Pollution
      • Lack of water
      • Drainage problems
      • Frost
      • Hail
      • Shade
      • Temperature
      • Wind
      • Symptoms of nutritional deficiencies
      • Air pollution
      • The plant and water
      • Non parasitic problems in turf (lawns)
      • Ways to provide environmental protection to plants

      9. Viruses

      • Overview
      • Symptoms
      • Detection and diagnosis of viruses
      • Control
      • Examples of virus diseases

      10. Nematodes, Mollusks, and Crustaceans

      • Overview
      • Millipedes
      • Plant nematodes
      • Nematodes in citrus
      • Red spider mites
      • Spiders
      • Slaters or wood lice
      • Snails and slugs

       

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

      Clear

       

      Get a Free Info Pack!

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