Herbs are fascinating, fun and useful. Whether you want to grow them to provide an interesting garden, or are hoping to learn more about using them in cooking, craft or for health and wellbeing: learning more about herbs through this course will no doubt enlighten and enrich you in ways beyond your expectations.
AIMS
During the course, the student will learn how to:
- Define “herb”
- Identify herbs suitable for hanging baskets, indoor growing, and appropriate methods of propagation for at least 50 herb species
- Define “companion planting”
- Give examples of appropriate companion planting
- Build an efficient compost heap
- Identify appropriate herbs for culinary uses
- Identify some medicinal uses for herbs
WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS COURSE?
During the course, the student will actually:
- Collect and identify 30 different herb specimens
- Learn the basics of plant identification
- Make contact with herb farms to ask about their operation
- Propagate herbs by cuttings
- Prepare a soil suitable for growing herbs
- Design and plant a herb garden
- Visit retailers to investigate the types of herb products available
- Prepare food containing herbs
- Harvest and dry a herb correctly
- Prepare one other type of herb product
Course Structure:
Six lessons as below:
1. Introduction to Herbs: Definitions, history of herbs, accurate identification.
2. Herb Gardening: Herbs in containers and indoors, soil, nutrition & feeding, propagating, growing.
3. Companion Planting: Designing herb gardens, interrelationships between herbs, composting.
4. Growing and Harvesting: Uses of herbs, selling herbs you grow.
5. Cooking with Herbs: Drinks, sweets, teas, vinegars, oils.
6. Herbs for Fragrance, Health and beauty:
collecting herbs, pot pourri, baths, candles, sachets....& more.
