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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Lec-3 Practical business practices in various branches of environmental horticulture including estimating, sales and service, public relations, budgets and record keeping, and starting a business. CSU
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3.00 Credits
Lec-2, lab-3, field trips Advise: O H 50 or significant field experience Introduction to soils and growing media as encountered in ornamental horticulture. Preparation and management of field and container soils. Soil composition and texture, soil chemistry, organic matter, colloids, soil structure, soil water and pH, plant nutrients and fertilizers, amendments, composting, beneficial soil organisms and diseases, drainage and irrigation. Managing turf, landscape and container soils. CSU
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3.00 Credits
Lec-2, lab-3, field trips Advise: Completion/concurrent enrollment in OH 50 or demonstration of exit skills Principles and practices of reproducing plants as commercially practiced in the horticulture industry. Topics include propagation by seed and vegetative methods including cuttings, layering, division, grafting, and micro-propagation. CSU
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2.00 Credits
Lec-1, lab-3, field trips Advise: OH 50, 53A, or demonstration of exit skills Basics of design, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of sprinkler and drip irrigation systems. Emphasis on landscape and turf irrigation. Nursery and greenhouse irrigation. Topics include establishing hydrozones, providing drainage, calculating pressure and flow requirements, system design and installation, equipment and fittings, automatic control systems and water conserving technologies. CSU
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3.00 Credits
Lec-2, lab-3, field trips Lectures, reading assignments, and hands-on laboratory projects involving the principles of landscape design, especially as applied to residential properties. Graphic drafting techniques are included. CSU
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3.00 Credits
Lec-2, lab-3, field trips Advise: O H 70A Principles of advanced landscape design, especially as applied to residential properties. CSU
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4.00 Credits
Lec-2, lab-6, field trips Principles of landscape construction, especially as applied to construction safety, tools, hardware, lumber, fences, gates, benches, decks, steps, paints, stains, concrete paving, concrete blocks, stone walls, and other physical aspects of landscape construction. CSU
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4.00 Credits
Lec-2, lab-6, field trips Projects dealing with the use of bricks, concrete blocks, drainage, irrigation, fountains, pumps, landscape surveying, and estimating. CSU
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3.00 Credits
Lec-3, field trips Advise: OH 50 or significant field experience An overview of pest management in landscape, greenhouse, and nursery operations; introduction to the identification life cycles, and damage of common pests; emphasis on integrated pest management techniques with an introduction to cultural, mechanical, biological, and least-toxic chemical controls; legal requirements applicable to the safe use of pesticides; preparation for the State Qualified Applicator Certificate examination; QAC/QAL continuing education credit available. CSU
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4.00 Credits
Lec-3, conf-1, field trips Identification of approximately 150 ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, and perennials commonly used in the San Francisco Bay Area for fall and winter bloom, fruit, or foliage. Covers basic plant anatomy and terminology used in the taxonomic classification of plants. Emphasis on cultural requirements, habits of growth and landscape use of plants. CSU/UC
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