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Nursery Hands Course

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This is a course designed in collaboration with nursery hands at the Greening Australia Hamel Nursery, south of Perth. It teaches the skills for day to day work in a production nursery. There are eleven lessons involving: The Nursery Industry - operational flow charts, nursery standards, plant variety rights, transport regulations;plant identification, nursery structures, buildings, heating & cooling systems; potting mixes, seed propagation, cutting propagation, other propagation techniques, plant nutrition, pest & disease control, other nursery tasks and marketing and sales.

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COURSE STRUCTURE The course is divided into eleven lessons as follows: 1. Introduction to the Nursery Industry: production systems, transport regulations, PVR 2. Plant Identification and Taxonomy: systematic botany, plant families, leaf and flower parts 3. Nursery Structures and Buildings: greenhouse management, structures for nurseries 4. Potting Mixes: U.C. soil mixes, understanding soils, growing media 5. Seed Propagation: quality, sources, storage, germination treatments 6. Cutting Propagation: stock plants, hormones 7. Other Propagation Techniques: tissue culture, division, separation, layering, grafting 8. Plant Nutrition in the Nursery: nutrition management, 9. Pests and Diseases Control: hygeine 10. Other Nursery Tasks: nursery irrigation, modifying plant growth 11. Marketing and Sales: sales methods Course Duration: 100 hours

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