Home Gardening Courses
Home Gardening Courses
The Gardening courses, workshops, and videos tutorials are for gardeners who wish to become more confident in their gardening practices, enjoying the fruits of their labor in an environmentally sustainable manner.
These classes will inspire you to:
-Start A Vegetable Garden Or Fruit Orchard
-Learn How To Maintain Your Landscape Properly
-Gain The Skills To Identify and Control Your Garden Pests, Diseases or Weeds.
6 Weeks Training
Marketing Your Landscaping Business- Online Course
Learn the step-by-step digital Marketing Systems for getting traffic and leads and converting prospects into customers.
The Masterclass comprises of 10 modules (online). Each module will provide you with the specific tools and digital marketing strategies you need to grow your landscaping business, get more customers and charge more for your services and products. Each week, you will learn two modules. Once a week you will get a chance to ask any questions during a live zoom session. The training is online and accessible any time and from any place.
The training is offered by the Anne Gachuhi of the Home Gardening Support Network. Learn more about Anne Gachuhi (at bottom of this webpage).
A well-designed landscape can increase your property value by as much as 10-15%. But landscape design is much more than a collection of plants or landscape elements thrown together.
Learn valuable tips and tricks for transforming your regular home garden into a beautiful landscape, that is functional, manageable, environmentally relevant, economically viable and is beautiful without spending a ton of money buying plants or wasting time on trial-and-error methods.
Start the design process by dividing the landscape into organized functional spaces such as:
- Public area (front yard)- includes the lawn, walks, foundation plantings and drives/parking.
- Private area or backyard- arranged to meet the family needs.
- Service area. Service features include :clothes lines, vegetable garden, pet facilities, compost bins, firewood, garbage bins etc.
- The service areas should be screened off with either fencing, vines, shrubs or planting beds
The landscape design courses below provide you with a simplified step by step process of understanding landscaping and the design process in a straightforward manner without being too technical or complicated.
What is Landscaping?
A beautiful landscape is not an accident.
Landscaping has been described as both a science and an art.
It is the art and science of arranging the landscape elements or outdoor spaces (trees, shrubs, flowers, decks, paths etc) for human satisfaction and enjoyment.
Landscaping extends the indoor living spaces to the outdoor spaces. For example, with landscaping it is possible to create areas in the outside garden that are the same or similar to rooms inside the house such as the kitchen, the sitting room or living room. A barbeque area outside is the same as a kitchen area. A quiet sitting area in the garden is the same as a sitting room or living room inside the house. Landscaping a property helps to create a relationship or link between the building or house to the surrounding natural environment.
Good landscaping is the result of a well thought out plan that applies the principles of design to develop an aesthetically pleasing landscape. These principles include:
Unity, balance, simplicity, focalization, proportion, rhythm and repetition etc.
Elements of design: color, size, texture, shape, form.
Knowing the plants structure, growth habits and cultural requirements is important in order to place plants that work well together, providing colors and texture schemes that enhances the landscape.
Take Advantage Of The Early Bird Registration! As soon as you register, you will get course log in details.
Course fees are in $ (dollars). You can convert to your specific currency
Sustainable Home Gardening And Landscape Program
Sustainable Home Gardening And Landscape Program
Sustainable Home Gardening and Landscape Program
Would you like to have a thriving home garden and landscape filled with fresh vegetables, fruit orchards and beautiful landscapes? Would you like my help in putting together this Landscape? Then sign up for our signature program “Sustainable Home Gardening And Landscape” program. This program is a six-week hands-on implementation program which will begin on Wednesday, June 1, 2022 till July 6, 2022.
Register for the program below:
Home Landscape Design 101
Have you brought a new home and need to landscape it? Or do you have an existing home that does not have a well thought out landscape design?
In this course, you will learn about landscape design, how to incorporate form, color and texture to enhance your home’s appeal and to avoid common landscape mistakes saving yourself time and money.
This session illustrates the use of the principles of design and elements of design to transform your garden into a space of harmony, unity and serenity. Participants will learn the important considerations in any design, the steps to take in creating a base plan and how to incorporate the most important wishes and desires of the home gardener within the design. Also included is how to take a survey of the landscape and the importance of proper plant selection and planting the right plants in the right place.
$39
Curb Appeal – Landscaping the Front Yard
Curb Appeal is what visitors to your home see when they first arrive at your front yard. The attractiveness of your home’s outdoors and front yard gives visitors the first impression of you and your home. For anyone wishing to sell their home or improve it’s outward appearance, curb appeal is important. The value of your home is greatly associated with the exterior appearance.
In this course, you will also learn the strategies for creating an aesthetically beautiful, attractive outdoors and functional front yard. Also included is how to utilize simple but effective design principles, the plant selections and landscape features that can help keep the design consistent and yet aesthetically pleasing for the home owner.
$39
Home Landscape Makeover
Are you interested in updating your existing home landscape?
A landscape makeover aims at creating aesthetically pleasing and functional outdoor landscape spaces that relate to the family lifestyle. This course walks you through the process of making-over areas around the home landscape so that they can be utilized as extra outdoor living spaces for: relaxing/sitting, cooking, dinning, entertaining, gardening or quiet private areas for reading a book or just meditating.
In this session you will learn the process for creating a landscape that has year-round interest with flowering trees and shrubs. Also covered is how to identify landscape views and features that you can keep or screen off. You will learn how you can use different landscape features such as screens, archways, trellises, arbors and hedges to create separate outdoor rooms or to maximize on the views.
Early Bird Price = $39
Landscaping Small Spaces
Designing a functional, aesthetically pleasing outdoor space for small spaces creates its own unique set of rules. These design challenges should be viewed as opportunities to get creative with plants selection and the final design. Unfortunately, less space does not mean less work.
This course is for anyone with spatially challenged outdoor spaces such as: small urban gardens, condominiums, decks, balconies, courtyards, apartment patios and terraces. Strategies for creativity in designing and developing small spaces that feels and appear larger will be discussed.
In this course, you learn how to turn these design challenges into opportunities to get creative with plants selection and the final design. Also covered is how to focus on details while making the most of the little space available. The basic principles of design still apply for small spaces as with larger spaces. The course also focuses on proper plant selections and landscape features that that can help keep the design consistent and yet aesthetically pleasing.
Early Bird Price = $39
Landscaping Fabulous Backyards
Would you like to have a Fabulous Backyard? Does your backyard need a make-over?
Do you wish to create backyard living spaces that are functional, intimate and yet pleasing? This presentation gives you tips on to create fabulous backyards as well as how to overcome some common backyard challenges such as: Lack of privacy, uninteresting backyards, harsh microclimates, unsightly storage sheds and undersized living spaces.
The backyard is where you spend most of your time with your family and friends. Let it become that space that beautiful and a place of serenity and comfort.
Early Bird Price = $39
Sustainable Landscape Series
Learn how to create landscapes that are sustainable; (functional, maintainable, environmentally sound, monetary viable and aesthetically pleasing). Participants will learn how to apply Permaculture Principles and Using Natural and Organic Methods in controlling pests, diseases and weeds.
Program series include:
a. Permaculture Design 101
b. Controlling Garden Pests and Diseases Using Organic Methods.
What is Permaculture?
• The term permaculture incorporate the words –“Permanent agriculture and culture” or “Permanent Culture”.
Permaculture is a holistic approach to landscape design and human culture.
• It is the harmonious integration of the landscape with people, providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.
• Permaculture is the mutually beneficial integration of land, resources, people and the environment
• Permaculture- “How we live in natural Systems without waste”.
Early Bird Price= $59
Landscaping With Tropical Shrubs & Ornamentals
Early Bird Price = $39
Getting The Perfect Lawn!
Maintaining a lawn can be a lot of work. This session discusses the Five (5) Simple Steps to a healthy lawn: Including:
a. Selecting the right type of lawn grass for your location
b. The right lawn care management steps to take including cultural practices, watering, mowing, fertilizing, thatch control, pests, weeds and disease control
Early Bird Price = $39
Who Is Anne Gachuhi?
Creating Edible Landscapes
Creating Edible Landscapes Blueprint and Healing Gardens
Hydroponic Gardening Success Course
$59
Growing Spectacular Vines
This Course Starts On February 20, 2021
Early Bird Price = $39
Have you ever wondered how you can graft your own fruit trees?
Or the advantages of grafting Fruit trees instead of growing them directly from seeds? In this class, you will learn how to propagate your plants using grafting, budding, layering, Division and Cuttings techniques. You can get access to the course here.
$59
Successful Pruning Strategies Course
Successful Pruning Strategies Every Gardener Should Know
The Successful Pruning Strategies Every Gardener Should know Course is a Comprehensive Online Course which provides you with a Step by Step formula for pruning, landscape plants, Shrubs, ornamentals and fruit trees. It provides an opportunity to understand the principles of pruning including: the right time to prune, what to prune and why. Through proper pruning, you can finally be able to get a healthier, more sustainable and aesthetically pleasing landscape.
The Course Comprises of:
Easy to follow Video Tutorials, Audio tapes and printed course materials covering all the major steps in pruning. A Hands-On pruning session further enhances the effectiveness of this program.
Effect Of Poorly Pruned Trees
Ergonomic And BodySmart Gardening Course
What Is Ergonomic Or BodySmart Gardening?
“Ergonomics deals with the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use.
It Incorporates elements from anatomy, physiology, psychology and design ensuring products are comfortable, safe and efficient”.
Our posture and how we garden can make gardening easy or challenging.
This session will provide simple techniques to make gardening more enjoyable.
Ergonomic Gardening is gardening smarter, not harder.
It’s BodySmart Gardening, Using Specially Designed Gardening Tools, Clothing Or Exercises that enables you to garden better, more efficiently and most important that you don’t injure yourself.
Growing Moringa Successfully Course
$59
The Moringa Course Outline
Get Individual Courses Or A Bundle (Gardening Success From The Ground Up).
