This Certificate builds on the Level 2 course, with more details of how the science that underlies growing and propagating healthy plants is applied in practical environments.
This Certificate builds on the Level 2 course, with more details of how the science that underlies growing and propagating healthy plants is applied in practical environments.
This unit covers the principles of plant classification, the role and function of higher plants’ anatomical and morphological features, plant metabolism and how plant growth is regulated.
It builds on the basics of RHS level 2 ‘Plant classification, structure and function’.
This unit covers the management of soils, growing media and plant nutrition, and an understanding of organic growing systems.
It builds on the basics of RHS level 2 'Plant Nutrition and the Root Environment'.
This unit covers pest and disease lifecycles and plant disorders, control methodology and legislation.
It builds on the basics of RHS level 2 'Maintaining Plant Health'.
This unit looks at the relevance of plant anatomy and physiology to propagation by seeds, spores and vegetative means, and at the management of propagation equipment and aftercare.
It builds on the basics of RHS level 2 ‘Understanding Plant Propagation’.