Course Overview

Bring your gardening skills to life with ICS
If you're a keen amateur gardener and want to know more about the key skills used by professionals, then you'll find our Complete Gardening Course the ideal way to learn.

How would you like to have a garden bursting with colour and full of your own vegetables?  Would you like to include trees and shrubs and introduce decorative man-made features likes rocks and waterfalls?

If you love to spend your spare time in amongst the foliage, make the most of it by learning all about these and other subjects.  With the Complete Gardening course you could soon be literally enjoying the fruits of your own labour - and a lot easier than you might think!

Key Topics
Soils and Manures
Vegetable Growing
Fruit Growing
Ornamental Gardening
The Flower Garden

Pre-requisites
The great news is that you don't need any previous experience to take this course.

Study Time
130 hours approx. For example: 11 hours per week to complete in 3 months, or 3 hours per week to complete in 12 months. Study as little or as much as you wish

Support
As an ICS student you will have your own personal tutor helping you with your course work and with any questions you may have. Plus our team of Student advisors are only a phone call away for all the practical advice you may need - so we really are there with you 100%.

Exam Details
This course includes a number of assessments that you complete as part of your coursework and then forward to your tutor. Once your tutor has marked and graded your work, they'll send it back to you with their comments, if any.

Qualification
ICS Complete Gardening Diploma

What our students say
"When I first moved house I didn't have a clue what to do in the garden. However ICS provided me with the answer! The coursework was well presented and proved to be very useful to me. I even got two free textbooks that I often refer back to. I would recommend the course to anyone interested in improving their green fingers!" Fiona McLeod, ICS Graduate, Glasgow

Key Jobs
Although not intended to be a specifically vocational course, the skills and knowledge you will learn will be invaluable to you if you intend to pursue a career in gardening.

Free With Course
"The Garden Expert" textbook 
Garden Chemicals Guide

Further Reading
It is recommended that you read the free textbooks provided with your course to supplement your knowledge as you progress