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Crop Tech
| Start date: | Any |
| Duration: | Up to 18 months |
| Formal prerequisite: | None |
| Certificate awarded: | Yes |
| Fee: | £385.00 |
An approach to the technology of commercial / professional crop production. The objective in creating this series is to collect together data and cultural procedures which are rarely described in such a complete way in the publications and books that are currently available. Professionals and candidates for the senioir horticultural examinations may find the texts, questions and specimen answers of some help.
| Lesson 1 | Orchard planning: Choice of site, modifications to microclimate. Soil and nutrient status. Specific apple replant disease. |
| Lesson 2 | Planting Systems: Land & Tree preparation. Planting: Apples, Pears, Plum, Damson, Gage, Cherries. Apiculture. Correcting nutrient deficiencies. |
| Lesson 3 | Top fruit production systems: Rootstocks. Tree shape, pruning & training. Growth control. Harvest & storage. |
| Lesson 4 | Soft fruit production: Planting preparation. Strawberries, fertigation, biological Control. Raspberries. Pollination. Blackberries, Gooseberries, Red & Blackcurrants, Highbush Blueberries. |
| Lesson 5 | Vegetable Production: Crop planning, Crop rotation. Modern propagation techniques, Bare root transplants, Module containers, Peat blocks. Bed systems. Irrigation and weed control. Storage & Cooling. |
| Lesson 6 | Plant Propagation: Principles & Practice: Provenance & Trueness to type, F1 Seed, Clones. Seed germination. Composts. Vegetative propagation: Stock plants Anatomy. Micropropagation. Named propagation examples. |
| Lesson 7 | Trees & Shrubs: British standards for nursery stock & code of practice for plant handling. Planting techniques. Pest, diseases & disorders. Trees & the Law. Selection & suitability. Design elements. Shelters & screens. |
| Lesson 8 | Aspects of Pest, Disease and weed control in fruit: Virus diseases, fungal Pathogens, Pest management. Supervised control concepts. The use of sex hormones for pest surveys. |
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