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how to be a gardener - The complete online guide

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Know your plot

Understand plants

Planting schemes and themes

Practical planting

Caring for your garden

Problem solving

The productive garden

The gardening year

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1 - Know your plot

8 - The gardening year

3 - Planting schemes & themes

7 - The productive garden

2 - Understand plants

4 - Practical planting

5 - Caring for your garden

6 - Problem solving

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Let’s face it, gardening can be pretty daunting. All those Latin names, the bugs and blights that can attack your plants just when they are looking their prettiest. How does anyone manage to grow anything?

Part One of ‘ How to be a gardener ’ will explain all that. It’s not magic, it’s common sense. I can’t promise you a copper-bottomed guarantee, but I can help you to learn how to avoid the pitfalls and make the most of what you’ve got.

This online resource, prepared in collaboration with the (External) Royal Horticultural Society , will bring life to your learning. There will be eight modules in all. You can work through them, or simply dip in, it’s up to you. The modules cover everything you need to know to give you a great start in gardening.

At the end of each module you can test your knowledge with a quiz. And there’s even a certificate to be gained.
I love gardening because it is the stuff of life, and it still gives me a thrill to sow seeds and grow plants. Enjoyment is what this course is all about.

Alan Titchmarsh

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