Horticulture III (Plant Health) BHT116 Course Online
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
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