There is nothing like being close to Mother Nature. Gardening is not just work as many people view it. It’s an art; it’s actually more than that. You’re in a relationship with the plants you’re tending to. Having said so much about the subject, here are some free online courses for you to get better at gardening and make it even more enjoyable!

Alison.com; Introduction to Organic Gardening

Alison.com provides you with a professional course on growing vegetables of your own. For access you need to do a onetime sign-up and that’s it. The course covers how to grow vegetables, what precautions to take, the correct techniques to use and much more.

BBC.co.uk; Online Gardening Course How to be a Gardener (HTBG)

An excellent course this is. In order to get started, get comfy with navigations. The eight connected circles each link to a module. Click anyone of them to get started, preferably go from the start. After you’re done with the first course, go to part two and then from there you can choose from the many modules as well.

Gardening 123.com; Gardening Courses

This site is all about gardening. It has guides, courses, tutorials and a lot more on a variety of topics such as roots, planting, soil types and a lot more. Although it is a paid site, they are regularly offering free courses apart from the free guides.

Free Student Courses; Gardening

This course covers the basics, gardening itself, different vegetables and all about them, about being a gardener; the different tools you will need and much more. Simply click on the links to the left and the pages will open up.

Planning and Preparing your Garden

This course is provided by Brigham Young University and is totally for free. It comprehensively covers the topics related to the planning and preparations required when starting or having your own garden. Simply click on “start course” on the left and you can start off with the course.

Growing Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts

This course specializes on the segmented topics of growing different vegetables, fruits and so on. This course covers the problems encountered regarding the plantations and maintenance etc required with these plants, different techniques of planting seeds of different types and much more.

 

 

RHS.org.uk; Jobs to do

The Royal Horticulture Society is one of the high-level gardening sites on the internet. Although their content is for paid members, it does have free videos on different gardening techniques having a variety of applications. These videos can be related to decoration, planting methods, about some new seed etc.

Tufts Opencourse; Agriculture and Sciences

This course takes a theoretical approach to gardening in covers the different plantations done and their techniques and maintenance required. This is part of an actual graduate course that took place at the University. It covers common gardening aspects like soil, water, air, energy, etc. Click here for Part2 of the course

Pesticides and Garden Maintenance

This course was basically designed to tutor candidates for a garden maintenance exam. It covers all the topics on insect presentation, usage of different pesticides and so on and can come in handy when gardening, especially for kitchen gardens.

Doug Green’s Garden.com; Online Seminar on Gardening

Here is a seminar where you can ask questions regarding gardening. You can see from the list of questions asked too and if you find your question there, the answer is also mentioned. You can browse through the asked questions as well to gain knowledge.

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