Horticulture

This page provides suggestions for content relating to AHC31120 Certificate III Nursery Operations.

• Consult your teacher for additional resources, or textbook advice.
• Don't see what you're looking for on these pages?  Try searching the Library Catalogue or Library Databases.

Suggested databases include:

• Chemwatch
• Techstreet (Australian Standards)
• Safetyhub
• Hazardous Chemical Information System

Chemicals

• Chemical Application (TOCAL) 
• Agricultural And Veterinary Permits Search

Irrigation 

• Irrigation:  Centre Pivot and Lateral Move (TOCAL)
• Irrigation:  Measuring and Monitoring (TOCAL)
• Irrigation:  System and Pump Selection (TOCAL)
• Irrigation Scheduling (TOCAL)

Nursery Plants

• Nursery industry Accreditation Scheme, Australia (NIASA) Best Management Practice Guidelines (NEW!) 

Prepare Growing Media

• Growing Media For Ornamental Plants and Turf

WHS

• WHS: A Management Guide
• Health and Safety Handbook: The Practical Guide to Workplace Health and Safety

Biosecurity 

• Diseases of Fruit Crops in Australia
• Machinery Hygiene: Inspecting and Cleaning Machinery to Prevent the Spread of Weeds, Pests and Diseases (TOCAL)

Operate Machinery and Equipment

• AgTech: An Introduction (TOCAL) 
• Chainsaw Operation: A Practical Guide to Safe Work Techniques
• Chainsaw Operator's Manual
• Ergonomic Operational Working Aspects of Forest Machines
• Pole Saw Operation and Maintenance (TOCAL) 
• Tree Faller's Manual: Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

Propagation

• Propagating Plants
• Plant Propagation
• Australian Rainforest Seeds: A Guide to Collecting, Processing and Propagation

Weeds 

• Managing Weeds
• Machinery Hygiene: Inspecting and Cleaning Machinery to Prevent the Spread of Weeds, Pests and Diseases
• Weeds of Southern Queensland (NEW!) 
• Weeds of the South-East
• Pests Diseases and Beneficials: Friends and Foes of Australian Gardens