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PROJECT
To train team leaders of maintenance gardeners.
OBJECTIVES
Leading a professional team and enterprising
Personal motivation and entrepreneurship
Acquisition of the knowledge necessary to a gardener team leader
Basic botanical knowledge
Knowledge of the different plants employed in an ornamental garden today
Maintenance of an ornamental garden and interventions bookkeeping
Safety equipment and maintenance of the materials
Management of the phytosanitary products and their employment
TRAINING ORGANIZATION
Addressees : ornamental gardens’ team leaders and horticulturists
Time : 20 hours
PEDAGOGICAL PROGRAMME
1. The profession of head gardener and its requirements
The head gardener’s role in the company : hierarchical relationship and with customers
Relationship with staff and leadership
Work quality, respect of the timetable and of the directions, and information feedback
Need for a scheduled programme and bookkeeping
Planning the maintenance and possible improvements.
2. Basic botanical knowledge
Morphology of the plants and of the vegetal matter
Sexual reproduction (flower, fruit, seeds)
Classification of the vegetal species
3. Knowledge of the most common plants for a landscape garden
Appearance of the plant and its employment in relationship with the other plants
How does the plant react in a specific environment ?
4. Growth, maintenance and reproduction of the ornamental plants
Reproduction : sowing, taking of cuttings, layering and grafting
How to plant bulbs and rhizomes
Planting and transplanting
Maintenance : trimming, pruning, etc.
5. Watering and irrigation
To learn how plants shed water
To discover the circulation of water in the plants
Determination of water and nutrients need, necessary to the life of plants
Automatic watering (installation, monitoring and maintenance)
Rainwater recovery and use
6. Composting
7. Individual and collective security equipment
8. Gardening materials
Maintenance of gardening materials
Safety rules on their employment.
PEDAGOGICAL METHODOLOGY
Alternation of theory and practice on the field
Group work to favour cohesion and sharing
Working on the field in real situations with the materials and the products currently used.
Association « Artiste No Tahiti"
API Formation Tahiti