What does your garden grow? - PROfarm course
Upcoming course dates
| Date: | 7 December 2009 |
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| Location: | Various |
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| Contact: | Maryke Archbold-Hession Ph:0246 406 333
Fax:0246 406 300
Mob:0408 492 039 |
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Course details
| Name: |
What does your garden grow? |
| Description: |
A course designed for those with an interest in weeds and to how best manage them in your garden. |
| Cost: |
After NSW Government subsidy $145 GST incl. |
| Course aims: |
A course designed to show participants how weeds spread, how to manage weeds in the garden and the importance of growing less weedy plants for the benefit of the environment. |
| Learning outcomes: |
- Consider what your garden and the Australian environment would look like without weeds.
- Define what makes a plant a weed.
- Recognise wider implications of weed problems in Australia.
- Explain the characteristics of plants that enables them to become serious weeds.
- Discuss how weeds spread.
Discuss the various categories of weeds in Australia.
- Explain the basics as to how plants are named.
- Develop an appreciation that there are similarities between plants that can cause confusion.
- Identify services and resources that can assist you in identifying plants.
- Identify issues for consideration in setting up a control program.
- Describe tactics that can be used to manage weeds.
- Identify regional groups who have an interest in weed control.
- List key problem plants and suitable alternatives for you region.
- Discuss issues that will impact on the success of change.
- Identify sources of information on potential weedy plants and their alternatives for your area so you can help in the fight against these weeds.
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| Length: |
Half day |
| Course program/structure: |
Half day program broken down into 5 topic areas. |
| Resources and method of delivery: |
Participants receive course notes and manual.
This course is delivered using indoor and out door instruction. |
