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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.
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.
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....
ACS started as the Australian Horticultural Correspondence Schools.
https://www.acsedu.co.uk/default.aspx
Try these:
https://prolawncareuk.com/
https://www.lawnweedexpert.co.uk/lawn-care-training
https://www.lawnsforyou.com/lawn-care-courses-learn-how-to
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.
away from your pa1/pa6 , 3 day lawn care course with richard salmond https://prolawncareuk.com