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Article: Gardening: Cultivate new skills.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2005
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Byline: Hannah
WITH the children going back to school, now may be the time to cultivate new skills by enrolling on one of the many gardening courses on offer.
You can take part in anything from a workshop at a local garden centre to a formal course at college leading to recognised qualifications, covering a range of subjects from plant identification to growing your own food or garden design.
Once of the most popular courses is the RHS (Level 2) Certificate In Horticulture, a modular course often done one afternoon or evening a week in colleges around the country.
It's designed to test basic understanding of the scientific principles ...