Students
CITY & GUILDS GROWING VEGETABLES & SALADS
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.
Providing students with the basic knowledge to design their own vegetable patch or allotment, you will learn about the different principles of vegetable gardening and examine topics such as brassica, root, legumes, onions and potatoes. By the end of the course you should be proficient in getting delicious vegetables from the seed packet to the dinner table.
Entry Requirements An interest in the subject.
Location
Hadlow, Medway - Cozenton Nursery, Rainham
Start Date Hadlow: Daytime: Friday 23rd April 2010, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Cozenton Nursery: Daytime: Friday 23rd April 2010, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Course Duration
10 weeks.
Registration Fee £30
Tuition Fee £100