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Learn to grow your own oranges, lemons, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits at home
Course Code: SGH20
Course Duration: 20 hours (minimum, self paced study, commonly 2 to 8 weeks, less or longer as you need)
Are you frustrated that your lemon tree doesn't resemble your grandmother's 50-year-old tree that used to produce bags of fruit? Are your citrus plants having problems with pests and diseases? How would you like to become more self-sufficient by growing your own citrus fruits and becoming less reliant on mass marketed produce with sometimes questionable sustainability standards?
This short citrus course will help you understand what you are doing wrong with your lemon, orange, grapefruit, cumquat tree and others and put you on the right path towards creating bountiful harvests.
Designed to only take 20 hours, this citrus course covers everything from soils, temperature, amount of light needed, plant nutrition, and more! Become more self-sufficient with bumper crops each year of oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits. Learn tips and tricks to enable you to have enough produce for your family and friends!
When you finish each lesson, you can test your knowledge and go back and review what you have learned. This course comes in a delightfully presented pdf that you will be able to save and use as a reference guide long after you have finished the course.
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What's INSIDE the course?
Course Content:
This course spans five lessons. At the end of each lesson, there is an online self-assessment test. When you have completed all 5 lessons, you will be presented with a longer test, covering all of the course content. When you successfully complete this test, you can download your Certificate of Completion.
LESSON 1 INTRODUCTION: SCOPE, NATURE, BOTANY AND TAXONOMY
- Citrus today
- Harvesting
- A brief history
- Botany of citrus
- Appearance
- Reproduction and variability
- Flowering and pollination
- Fruit development
- Number and classification of species
- Species of citrus
- Close relatives
- Microcitrus
- Eremocitrus
- Fortunell
- Poncirus
- Lesson 1 additional reading
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 2 CITRUS CULTIVATION
- Planting citrus trees
- What affects success?
- Temperature
- Frosts and cold winds
- Choose the right type
- Shade
- Tree size
- Root damage
- Container growing
- Soil
- Colloids
- Preparing the soil for planting
- Does your soil need gypsum?
- Planting technique
- Feeding
- Fertiliser applications
- Drainage
- Irrigation
- Measuring water availability to plants
- Irrigation
- Scheduling irrigation
- Important elements
- Period of watering
- Cyclic watering
- Pulse watering
- Water extraction by roots
- Types of irrigation
- Common citrus fruit problems
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Pests of citrus
- Diseases and viruses of citrus
- Planting lemon trees
- Planting technique
- Caring for lemon trees
- Pruning citrus
- Pruning a standard shape
- Renovating an old tree
- Pruning to improve fruit quality
- Pruning to improve tree health
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 3 CITRUS PROPAGATION
- Propagation options
- Grafting (budding)
- Budding techniques
- Dwarf trees and double grafts
- Growing from cuttings
- Growing from seed
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 4 CITRUS CULTIVARS
- Deciding what to grow
- Lemon tree selection
- Cumquats
- Unusual citrus
- Citrus fruit ripening chart
- Lesson 4 additional reading
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 5 USING CITRUS
- Nutritional value of citrus
- How to extract citrus oils
- Freezing citrus
- Drying citrus
- Making use of excess lemons
- Making fresh lemonade
- Recipes
- Making jams/marmalade
- Marmalade
- Beetroot and orange chutney
- Citrus syrup cake
- Classic orange fennel and onion salad
- Easy salad dressing
- Easy pasta side dish
- Fruit butter/ fruit curd
- Lemon tart
- Lemon dipping sauce - Asian style
- Lettuce cups with chicken and citrus
- Lime chutney
- Marinade for chicken
- Marinade for steak
- Orange salad
- Orange couscous
- Salsa topping for salmon or trout
- Review what you have been learning
- Final assessment
Who This Course is For
Market gardeners, fruit growers, orchardists, who would like to focus on citrus production.
Horticulturists, gardeners, permaculture practitioners, and others who would like to learn more about growing and using citrus fruits.
Home gardeners who lack the knowledge to attempt to grow citrus plants.
Chefs and home cooks who may wish to discover new ways of using citrus in dishes.
Anyone interested in becoming more self-sufficient.
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