Directions Newsletter
New webCampusPLUS courses grow your gardening skills
Toronto – April 24, 2019 – UFCW Canada's ground-breaking online education program, webCampusPLUS, is launching two new courses to blossom your budding gardening skills and know-how.
Gardening Foundations will bring out your green thumb with tips and directions on planting a garden, along with the fundamentals of growing plants and vegetables. Some of the topics to grow your gardening skills include:
- gardening basics
- soil quality
- fertilizers and soil enrichment
- organic gardening methods
- plant hardiness zones
Garden Design blossoms you from the basics of gardening to growing your budding skills to design a garden of your choice. This course will also show you how to put your gardening know-how to work at home or at your local garden centre by enriching your knowledge to:
- understand and be able to explain the elements and principles of garden design;
- be familiar with different types of gardens;
- be able to explain the various aspects of garden maintenance;
- understand the relationship between the plant hardiness zone and successful gardening;
- know which tools are needed to plant and maintain a garden; and
- be able to explain the concept of succession planting.
To see the full webCampusPLUS course listings, click here.