Learn how to grow delicious, fresh, healthy vegetables 

Course Code: AHT102

Course Duration: 100 hours (approximation, self paced study, commonly 3 to 6 months, longer if you need)

• Learn how to build a vegie garden.
• Study cultivation and planting.
• Study the main types of vegetables.
• Learn how to make great compost.
• Study pest, disease and weed control.
• Learn about hydroponic and greenhouse growing.
• Study herbs and uncommon vegetable varieties.
• Learn about watering and irrigation systems.
• Learn about harvesting, storing and using vegetables.

Vegetable Growing Course

• Study, Learn and Grow vegies at home.
• Feed the family; and maybe neighbours and friends too.

This is a practical, hands on course that can be applied to aby scale. It doesn't matter if you are only growing a few vegies in pots in a courtyard; or lots in a large home garden: this course works either way.

COURSE STRUCTURE

The eight lessons are as follows:

Lesson 1: Introduction
• Ways of growing vegetables
• Understanding plant names
• Resource guide
Lesson 2: Cultivation and Planting
• Different growing methods (organic gardening, hydroponics, permaculture etc)
• Vertical gardening and its types
• Planting methods (seeds, transplanting or offsets, crowns tubers etc)
• Understanding soil and nutrition
• Soil pH
• Composting
Lesson 3: Review of Major Vegetable Varieties
• Conditions favourable for planting
• Cultivation practices of commonly grown vegetables
• Brassicas (Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Radish, turnip etc)
• Legumes (Beans, Pea etc)
• Lettuce
• Onion
• Potatoes
Lesson 4: Pest, Disease & Weed Control
• Natural control methods
• Cultural control method (mulching, crop rotation, resistant varieties etc)
• Physical control methods (traps, repellent devices etc)
Lesson 5: Hydroponic and Greenhouse Growing
• Growing vegetables in greenhouses
• Type of greenhouse
• Greenhouse problems
• Hydroponics
• Type of hydroponic growing systems
• Nutrient solutions and pH
• Cultivation of tomato
Lesson 6: Lesser Grown Varieties and Herbs
• Crop scheduling
• Cultivation of less commonly grown varieties
• Amaranth
• Artichoke
• Asparagus
• Cassava
• Chicory
• Common Mint
• Dandelion
• Endive
• Fennel
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Horseradish
• Okra
• Rhubarb
• Yams
• Sweet potato
• Taro and many more
Lesson 7: Irrigation
• The do’s and don’ts of watering
• Ways to reduce water needs
• Different watering systems
• Designing water system
• Micro-irrigation
• Cultivation of other vegetables
Lesson 8: Harvesting, Storing & Using Vegetables
• Harvesting of different vegetables
• Storing vegetables
• Preserving and processing
• Bottling
• Pickles
• Sauces
• Freezing
• Blanching
• Methods of freezing different vegetables