Allotment Management QLS Level 3

• Acquire an allotment
  
• Historical context of an allotment
  
• Vibrant social movement
  
• National organisations
  

• Preparing a plot for cultivation
  
• Developing a plan
  
• Choosing the right tools and equipment
  
• Maintaining soil
  
• Providing growing conditions
  

• Choosing the best fruit to grow
  
• Developing an action plan
  
• Importance of feed, water and fertilise for maximum production
  
• Protecting fruit from pests and diseases
  

• Choosing the best vegetables to grow
  
• Advantages and disadvantages of disease resistant or heritage varieties
  
• Growing from seeds, sets or plug plants
  
• Growing in rows and raised beds
• Crop rotation

• Kitchen herbs and their culinary or medical uses
  
• Choosing herbs to grow and maintaining them
  
• Benefits of companion planting
  
• Controlling weeds

• Site a water butt and manage water effectively
  
• Security options
  
• Storing produce and tools
  
• Growing under glass (cold frames and cloches)
  
• Long-term benefits of greenhouses and poly-tunnel
  

This course is assessed by a series of assignments, which are submitted to your tutor for marking. No external examination is required. You are required to do some of your own research.

You may start at any time and have a full year to complete your studies. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.

This course will enable you to work when and where you want. You can study from home or at work; it is completely up to you. All your materials will be posted to you, so receiving your materials is easy. You will also receive our award-winning support by email, so help is only a click away!

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality License Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).