Learn how to care for plants with easy-to-follow gardening methods aimed at both new and experienced home gardeners on this course from BBC Gardeners’ World.
4 hrs per week
Approx 5 weeks
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Course 1
How Plants Grow: The Essentials
4.4 (35 reviews)Build your gardening skills and knowledge and learn the best environments and techniques to nurture your plants.
1 test
2 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
How plants grow
- Welcome to the course
- Back to basics: what's in a plant?
- How a plant grows itself
- What will you grow?
Week 2
Where and when plants grow
- Assess your conditions
- Understanding seasons
- Climate, outdoor and indoor environments
- Understanding your soil
Course 2
How to Grow Healthy Plants
4.7 (30 reviews)Level up your gardening skills to master the basic methods for growing new plants and protect them from disease and pests.
1 test
3 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
Keeping your plants alive
- Watering plants
- Feeding plants
- Protecting plants
- Pinching, training and thinning
- Pruning, trimming and deadheading
Week 2
Growing new plants
- Why raise new plants
- Growing plants from seed
- Growing plants from cuttings
- Dividing plants
- Layering plants
Week 3
How to avoid common gardening problems
- Has something gone wrong?
- The gardener and plant problems
- Pests, diseases and root causes
- What you've learned
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