Students will learn the basic principles of gardening and landscaping in a desert and semi-arid environment. Conventional and organic gardening principles and practices will be taught. Successful completion of this course will fulfill the training requirements for the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program.
Prerequisites
None
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify basic botany concepts.
- Identify and explain different soils, fertilizer, and compost.
- Identify plant physiology.
- Identify best irrigation practices in an arid environment.
- Identify concepts in vegetable and herb gardening.
- Integrate knowledge of fruit production.
- Integrate knowledge of plant pruning.
- Integrate knowledge of entomology.
- Diagnose plant problems.
- Diagnose vertebrate pest problems.
- Describe integrated weed management principles.
- Describe the use and care of low water use ornamental plant basic landscape design.
- Integrate firewise landscape principles.
- Describe methods of plant propagation.