If you would rather work outside than at a desk, start here. Four certificates cover garden care, turf, landscaping and the books. Study online, and take it a topic at a time.
Garden rounds are built one customer at a time. This shows you how.
Soil, feeding, weeds, pests and lawn repair all get their own topics.
A business plan, bookkeeping basics and Xero are in the bundle.
Most garden work is small rounds and repeat customers. Days are mowing, hedges, beds and the odd rescued lawn.
Build a round of regular customers.
Work your own hours, your own patch.
Feeding, aeration and turf repair.
Seasonal work with steady repeat jobs.
Look after private gardens year round.
Work on larger sites and estates.
Take on planting and build jobs.
Keep grounds and features in order.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different. Some need tickets, insurance or more experience first.
Three green certificates, then the business one under them.
Three things worth knowing.
Deterioration, cultivation, drainage, aeration and renovation.
Plans, soils, planting, pruning and garden features.
Structures, a plan, bookkeeping and Xero, before your first invoice.
Plus CPD credits and career support
Issued once you finish the bundle.
Counts toward your professional development.
CV help and interview practice.
Your own round, or grounds work.
An advisor covers all four certificates.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first certificate.
None needed. The first certificate starts at the beginning.
Access runs six months. The bundle is about two hundred hours.
None, ever. You work through the certificates at your pace.
Yes. Business structures, a plan, bookkeeping and Xero are all in there.
Turf repair and renovation is a full certificate on its own.
Yes. Nothing is timetabled, and access is open day and night.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. It earns CPD credits. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. Garden customers hire on the state of the garden.
There is a fourteen day money back guarantee, less the administration fee.
The Career Academy sells this course. The college has fifteen years behind it.
It is a Xero Partner and an IAB Accredited Training Provider. It is also an AAT Approved Training Provider.
Picture the morning your van pulls up on your own street.