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Training courses for lawn care

Posted by David Seabridge on December 8, 2021 at 1:22pm in Turfcare

I have been looking at training courses (online) for lawn care.  I came across a lawn mowing and turf care training course through Warwickshire College which gives you an ACS Certificate.

Im not sure what weight an ACS certificate holds from a professional perspective yet the course looked quite interesting and its only £100.

So my question is: what courses do you recommend? or people/companies that provide training?

And how many of you have actually done professional training?! and if you do, is it something you continually do in order to keep up to date with new technologies/equipment etc?

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  • Gary Clapham December 8, 2021 at 2:29pm

    Personally, never been on a course for lawn care, for £100 I doubt they’ll teach nothing that YouTube can’t. YouTube is full of a wealth of info from basic to the maintenance of golf course or bowling green.
    I’ve never been asked for a certificate from any of my customers, they are more interested in the quality of my work. I would suggest getting your PA1/PA6 though.

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    Andrew Betteridge December 8, 2021 at 4:10pm

    Several years ago I tried to contact a major landscape contractor which was advertising a course on its website, but didn’t get a response.

    I suspect they were doing in-house training for their own staff and selling off spare seats, I tried a few more emails to them, but didn’t get a response.You may even struggle to buy decent books, I got some secondhand, so some chapters are a bit dated such as Chaffer Grub treatments. 

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    Adam Pilgrim December 8, 2021 at 5:02pm

    Would suggest as a bare minimum PA1/6 (basically covers use of chemicals and application by knapsack sprayer). Somewhere around £500 -£600 for the two.

    If getting involved with motorised spreaders/sprayers, then PA2 and 4.

    Also training out there for use of nematodes etc.

    All depends how involved and in depth you want to get in the job....

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    Andrew Betteridge December 8, 2021 at 6:47pm

    ACS started as the Australian Horticultural Correspondence Schools.

    https://www.acsedu.co.uk/default.aspx

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    Andrew Watts December 8, 2021 at 7:08pm

    Try these:

    https://prolawncareuk.com/

    https://www.lawnweedexpert.co.uk/lawn-care-training

    https://www.lawnsforyou.com/lawn-care-courses-learn-how-to

     Lawn Care Training Company - ProLawnCare UK
    35 years of agronomic, turf care and lawn care knowledge, delivered to you in a variety of manageable training modules
  • Premier Eastleigh Gardens & Lawn Care December 8, 2021 at 7:17pm

    not all relate well to online courses 🤷‍♂️ you can't ask questions or suss out the guy giving it so still real courses help some people.

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    Lawn Legends March 13, 2022 at 4:23pm

     away from your pa1/pa6   ,  3 day lawn care course with richard salmond https://prolawncareuk.com

     Lawn Care Training Company - ProLawnCare UK
    35 years of agronomic, turf care and lawn care knowledge, delivered to you in a variety of manageable training modules
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