Enroll in the course below and start watching the training presentation. Make sure to turn on the sound on your device to hear the voice over. When you have viewed all slides, mark the course as completed and continue to the short quiz to proceed to the certificate. After completing the quiz, print or save your certificate and exit or take another course.
| Module 1 | Landscape and Grounds Lesson 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | Landscape and Grounds Video 1 | |
| Unit 2 | Landscape and Grounds Quiz 1 | |
| Module 2 | Landscape and Grounds Lesson 2 | |
| Unit 1 | Landscape and Grounds Video 2 | |
| Unit 2 | Landscape and Grounds Quiz 2 | |
| Module 3 | Landscape and Grounds Lesson 3 | |
| Unit 1 | Landscape and Grounds Video 3 | |
| Unit 2 | Landscape and Grounds Quiz 3 | |
| Module 4 | Landscape and Grounds Lesson 4 | |
| Unit 1 | Landscape and Grounds Video 4 | |
| Unit 2 | Landscape and Grounds Quiz 4 | |
| Module 5 | Landscape and Grounds Feedback | |
| Unit 1 | Landscape and Grounds Feedback |
Schools place great importance on the landscape and grounds around their buildings. A healthy and functional landscape enhances the learning and working environment. Pests and pesticides used in the landscape can migrate indoors, or affect children and adults who play or work in the area. This training course is divided into four lessons for landscape and grounds staff. The course covers practices to maintain healthy landscapes and turf, physical, cultural and biological pest control methods and identification of common landscape and turf weeds, insects, and diseases.
Lesson one: Basic concepts of integrated pest management for school grounds, Zone Management approach, basic principles of cultural, physical and biological controls. Learn how to prevent pests moving into the campus by controlling the outdoor environment.
Lesson two: Turf management, specific cultural practices, mowing, fertilization, irrigation, soil analysis, aeration and overseeding.
Lesson three: How to identify plant species suited for site specific areas, brief review of turfgrass and best management practices, identify and manage some of the most common turfgrass weeds, turfgrass insects, and vertebrate pests.
Lesson four: Turf diseases, ways to help reduce turfgrass diseases and best management practices to maintain a healthy soil and turf area.
