Intro. to Horticulture/Nursery Landscaping

Great Things To Learn This Week

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Week 2: April 13-17

Week 3: April 20-24

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Backyard Gardening

Learning Goal:

This lesson will focus on methods of producing common fruits and vegetables with limited spacing and inexpensive equipment. It will take you from setting up garden beds or tubs to planting desirable plants.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • You can find the needed reading material and assignments in Canvas.
  • Contact your teacher for more discussion or questions.

Fertilization & pH

Learning Goal:

This lesson will focus on the importance of nutrients in the soil along with the soil’s pH and how pH can affect the availability of nutrients to plants.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • You can find the needed reading material and assignments in Canvas.
  • Contact your teacher for more discussion or questions.

Week 3: April 20-24

Intro to Hort/ Nursery Landscape-

Backyard Gardening

Learning Goal:

This lesson will focus on methods of producing common fruits and vegetables with limited spacing and inexpensive equipment. It will take you from setting up garden beds or tubs to planting desirable plants.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • You can find the needed reading material and assignments in Canvas.
  • Contact your teacher for more discussion or questions.

Week 4: April 27 - May 1

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Growing Plants in Small Spaces

Learning Goal:

This lesson will focus on methods of producing common fruits and vegetables with limited spacing and inexpensive equipment. It will take you from setting up garden beds or tubs to planting desirable plants.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • Go to this link to read about alternative planting methods for limited spaces: https://www.agednet.com/subs/ht127.shtml
  • Login username: Agriculture
  • Login password: AGtoday
  • Read about the planting methods and watch informational videos at the bottom of the web page.
  • Consider trying them out for your own home project. Be sure to document with photographs and logging in your AET journal.


Week 5: May 4-8

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Introduction to Hardscape Material

Learning Goal:

This lesson will focus on the use of hardscape material in landscape design. Material will include border material and accent pieces which will provide a year round focal point for residential and commercial gardens.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • You can find the needed reading material and assignments in Canvas.
  • Be sure to contact your instructor with any questions.


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