Students
CITY & GUILDS GROWING FRUIT
Resources
- Extensive glasshouse facilities
- Field nursery stock production
- Computer controlled environmental and irrigation systems
- Fruit and container production units
- Plant propagation centre
- Fully equipped landscape training centre
- Demonstration garden for leading national retailers
- Fully labelled plant collectiopn throughout the College grounds
- 10 acres of landscaped gardens and two National Collections within Broadview Gardens
- Fully commercial garden centre
Typical Employers
Local authorities, nurseries, garden centres, publicly and privately owned gardens, commercial landscaping companies.
Industry Links
Students benefit from a wide range of links with commercial nurseries, research institutes, organic producers, public and privately owned gardens as well as exposure to the retail world through our onsite garden centre. The College is also a member of the Royal Horticultural Society; NCCPG and the Hardy Plant Society.
Covering the site selection and preparation for growing fruit, students will look at fruit tree production, pollination and pruning, annual maintenance as well as the cultivation of apples and soft fruit.
Entry Requirements An interest in the subject.
Location
Medway - Cozenton Nursery, Rainham
Start Date Daytime: Friday 25th September 2009, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Course Duration
10 weeks.
Registration Fee £30
Tuition Fee £100