Gardening Courses | Gentleman Pirate Club

1. The Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening

Learn where, when and what to plant in your backyard garden.

What you’ll learn

Requirements

Before you start this course take some time to head out in your yard and find a nice sunny spot to plant a garden.

What you’ll learn:

You Can Grow Vegetables and Flowers in a Short Season. What you’ll learn:

Master the basics of growing flowers, vegetables, and other plants in cold climates where winter temperatures fall below freezing
Establish your first garden using step-by-step instructions
Select plants that are going to be successful in your garden space
Grow hardy plants that can tolerate cooler temperatures and short seasons
Move from a beginner gardener to more intermediate and advanced topics

Get gardening with this step-by-step guide to building a raised bed garden. What you’ll learn:

How to build a raised bed with minimal materials, equipment, and cost.
Understand all the basic aspects of maintaining a raised bed garden: planting, watering, etc.
Knowledge of basic light carpentry concepts and how to apply them.
Adapt foundational horticultural concepts to suit your specific circumstances in creating and maintaining a garden
Insights to encourage and install confidence to create a beautiful, productive growing space that will last for years.

A-Z gardening instructions for creating a healthy and delicious edible garden in your own backyard, patio, or balcony. What you’ll learn:

Grow delicious and healthy vegetables in any size garden. Garden design, soil preparation, plant selection, pest and disease control, and harvesting are covered step by step and

Never buy a garden seed again by learning how to save your own seeds from your vegetable garden.
What you’ll learn:

You will learn what heirloom seeds (open pollinated) are and what hybrid sees are and why you can’t save seeds from hybrids
Cross pollination can have a big affect on some seeds, you will learn what plants have cross pollination issues and how to prevent problems with your seeds.
Some plants are easy to save seeds from, others are very difficult. You will and gain the skills you need to start saving your own garden seeds