How to Grow Healthy Plants by Futurelearn
Level up your gardening skills to master the basic methods for growing new plants and protect them from disease and pests.
Course Highlights
- Assess the different growing conditions experienced by plants and adapt cultivation techniques accordingly.
- Apply basic methods of raising new plants – from sowing seeds, to dividing and taking cuttings.
- Demonstrate that plants have different needs from ourselves and that it’s possible to kill plants with kindness
- Assess your plants' health regularly to in order to nurture and respond to their needs.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
5 Topics
How to Grow Plants and Nurture Them is a plants-first course that teaches the foundational knowledge needed to be a good gardener
Building on the basic science behind plants
the course looks at how to help any plant thrive by creating the right growing environment
how to create new plants yourself without having to buy them
and what to do when things go wrong
4 Topics
feed and care for plants Raising new plants from seed
division and cuttings Pinching
training and thinning your plants Pruning
trimming and deadheading What to do about plant pests and diseases
How to Grow Healthy Plants
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