Key words
Objectives
Acquire a broad knowledge about the most important vegetable crops for greenhouse cultivation in the field of plant characteristics and growing systems. A lot of crops can be cultivated in soils but also soilless and hydroponic cultures become more and more important;
Practices for diverse cultures have to be demonstrated
Prerequisites
Topics
Treatment of the most important greenhouse vegetables is discussed as follows:
Botanical aspects, assortment of cultivars, culture conditions of young plants, growing schedules, nutrition and fertilisation, techniques to control growth factors, plant infections and diseases , harvest methods and commercialising of end products.
The crops are separately discussed in order of importance or of affinities: tomato, cucumber, sweet pepper, lettuce, endive, lamb's lettuce, radish, courgette, asparagus, celery, strawberries and spicy herbs.
Teaching Methods
- lectures - demonstrations - exercises - individual reports - field work - home study - training period
Materials used
- teacher's course - other textbook(s) - background information
- scientific technical literature- school library materials ... - others
Study guidance
The student can always make an appointment.
Assessment
- Scoring system :
oral examination - written tests - others
Study costs
± 75 Euro
Lecturer(s)
Omer MEKERS
Language
Dutch
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