Gardening school training courses in Baltimore, MD (public, in-house or online)

Cultivate your own Maryland homegrown tomatoes…there’s nothing better! Are you "garden intimidated" by the range of vegetables and flowers, requirements for that bumper crop, location and techniques for planting, use of fertilizers/pesticides? Learn to optimize your site, selection, and techniques to give you bragging rights to this year’s harvest.

Learn where to plant a rain garden; what the dimensions should be; what kinds of plants and soil to use; how a rain garden eliminates pollutants and finally, how to maintain a rain garden. Enhance the beauty of your home or business while sustaining the environment.

Use landscaping to beautify a home setting. Learn the principles of design and some basics of landscape drafting. Discover what the experts know.

This course is a four hour module designed for the professional landscaper or caring homeowner. The course will teach participants how to reinvent the way traditional landscaping has been done. Most landscaping processes are anti-green, but this course provides tremendous insight into lawn care, weed control, fertilizer, and irrigation. Topics such as prairie reversion, green roofs, and phyto-remediation make this course very insightful.

Students begin this 4 hour course upon registratio...

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The Landscape and Garden Center Technician program provides quality education in the areas of landscape design and construction, garden center operation and ornamental plant maintenance. The focus is on preparing graduates for challenging careers in the expanding field of landscaping and garden centers. Students will design and construct landscapes using a variety of different techniques and construction materials. Students will also develop contemporary business concepts as they apply to landsc...

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