Certificate III in Horticulture

Certificate III in Horticulture gives you the talents and understanding required to work as a horticulturist or gardener.

Certificate 3 in Horticulture

Certificate 3 in Horticulture will also offer you a broad scope of understanding in enhancing ground situations, executing plant nourishment schedules, managing machinery and tools, and supporting nursery plants.

Certificate III in Horticulture

Cert 3 of Horticulture will provide plant recognition and care skills, topography administration, breeding, pruning and fertilizing to maintain parks and nurseries. Nursery Managers are looking for talented, hardworking, dedicated students with an optimistic perspective.

Achieving this certificate will prepare you for a career as a horticulturist or working in a park, nursery, or garden.

Cert 3 in Horticulture Entry Requirements

  • 18 years of age (Minimum) (exclusively international students)
  • Completion of Year 12 or Equivalent
  • An IELTS with 5.5 points

Cert 3 in Horticulture Fees

A$6,000 to A$15,000. The fee range can change from time to time.

Cert III Horticulture Course Duration

26 - 52 weeks Full time

Cert 3 in Horticulture Intakes

February and July. Some colleges will offer April and October intakes as well.

Cert 3 Horticulture Career Opportunities

The skills and understanding of the horticulture course help you to find employment in the following areas:

  • Community Facilities Landscape Assistant
  • Open Space Landscape Assistant
  • Landscape Assistant
  • Parks and gardens Officer
  • Orchard Farm Worker
  • Plantation Worker
  • General Purpose Gardener

Cert 3 in Horticulture Pathways and Recognition of Prior Learning

  • Certificate IV in Horticulture
  • Diploma in Horticulture

Certificate 3 in Horticulture Core Units

AHCCHM304 Transport and store chemicals

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to safely oversee, transport, and store chemicals.

AHCCHM307 Prepare and add chemicals to control pest, weeds, and as well as diseases

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to safely prepare and add chemicals for the control of pests, weeds, and disease, using diverse application equipment.

AHCIRG346 Operate pressurized irrigation systems

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to pre-start check, inspect, start, up, operate, monitor, and shut down pressurized irrigation systems.

AHCMOM304 Operate machinery and equipment

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare and operate machinery and equipment in a safe and controlled manner that is used principally in agriculture, horticulture, and conservation, and land administration work.

AHCPCM308 Identify and select plants

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise and choose designs to suit plant usage and work site, involving recognising commonly used plants, explains plants and explaining plant cultural needs.

AHCPGD309 Perform specialist amenity pruning

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to achieve specialist amenity pruning, involving preparing, undertaking, and finishing amenity pruning work using specialist pruning methods.

AHCPMG301 Control weeds

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to design, and coordinate weed control activities using appropriate strategies to provide effective, monetary control while minimizing environmental damage.

AHCPMG302 Control plant pests, diseases, and disorders

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise and evaluate the effect to plants of plant pests, diseases, and disorders, and design and coordinate control measures.

AHCSOL304 Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collect and assess soil samples for their physical and chemical characteristics and take correct action to improve the soil for garden beds and turf areas.

AHCWHS302 Contribute to workplace health and safety processes

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to contribute to work area health and safety processes, involving adding policies and processes, helping in hazard recognition and risk control, and observing safe practices during work operations.

AHCWRK320 Apply environmentally sustainable work practices

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to add environmentally sustainable work practices.

Certificate III in Horticulture Elective Units

CARB314 Implement a tree maintenance program

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise a tree species and evaluate the health and condition to advance, implement, and schedule a tree maintenance program and treatments according to safety and environmental processes.

AHCARB316 Perform pruning operations

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to achieve corrective and remedial pruning operations to trees either from the ground or whilst working at height.

AHCBIO303 Apply biosecurity measures

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to interpret and add control measures in a biosecurity plan to protect a site from the entry and spread of biosecurity threats.

AHCDRG305 Install drainage systems

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare, coordinate, undertake, and finish surface and subsurface and drainage system installation.

AHCHYD301 Implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to implement a maintenance program for hydroponic growing systems.

AHCIRG337 Measure irrigation delivery system performance

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to measure pressure, flow, and distribution uniformity of an irrigation system, monitor supply of equipment and spare parts, and as well as record system achievement.

AHCIRG338 Troubleshoot irrigation systems

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to locate and recognise irrigation system faulty components and blockages, shut down, and isolate components, replace faulty components, clear blockages, and return irrigation system to normal operating status.

AHCLSC316 Implement a paving project

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to install and construct a paved surface, involving preparing for paving project, setting out, and preparing site, implementing the pave project, installing stone paving, checking, and cleaning up site.

AHCMOM203 Operate basic machinery and equipment

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to undertake pre-start checks, operate, maintain, and shut down basic machinery and equipment used in the agriculture, horticulture, and land administration sectors.

AHCNSY308 Maintain nursery plants

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to monitor and maintain the nursery environment, confirm water needs and plant interventions that promote plant growth, and finish nursery plant maintenance work.

AHCNSY310 Install and maintain plant displays

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to evaluate plant display needs, document plant display plan, and install, and maintain plant displays.

AHCNSY312 Prepare specialised plants

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare and implement plant treatments and maintain aesthetic appearance of specialised plants.

AHCNSY313 Implement a propagation plan

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to implement a propagation plan, involving, preparing for, implementing, and finishing propagation of plants.

AHCPCM204 Recognise plants

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to identify commonly encountered plants, involving desired species, and weeds, and to document, and determine plane recognition.

AHCPCM303 Identify plant specimens

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to inspect plant specimens and explain the features and attributes of a plant for the purpose of plant recognition and providing information to a client or organisation.

AHCPCM305 Implement a plant nutrition program

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to implement a plant nutrition program, involving preparing for the nutrition program, monitoring, and controlling the nutritional needs of plants, preparing fertilisers and application equipment, adding products to plants, and finishing plant nutrition program activities.

AHCPCM306 Provide information on plants and their culture

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise client problems or needs, recognise the preferred solution, and provide information and solutions to clients.

AHCPCM307 Report on health and condition of trees

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare and inspect trees and record and report discoveries.

AHCPGD307 Implement a plant establishment program

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise planting areas, involving preparing, implementing, reviewing, and finishing plant establishment work, in new projects and in programs of extensive replacement and renovation works across a vast range of situations and environments.

AHCPGD308 Plan and maintain plant displays

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to plan and authorise plant displays, involving preparing, choosing, placing, and maintaining plants either indoors or as seasonal displays of annual and perennial plants in garden beds and finishing work.

AHCPGD310 Implement a landscape maintenance program

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to implement a landscape maintenance program, involving interpreting the program needs, and monitoring, and maintaining landscape areas of newly constructed or established landscapes.

AHCSOL305 Prepare growing media

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare growing media for various plants, involving prepare for work, determining specifications for growing media and preparing and storing the media.

AHCTRF306 Prepare sports turf surfaces for play

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to design, prepare the turf, and mark out the sports surfaces ready for play, complying with the rules and regulations of the sport.

AHCTRF308 Establish Turf

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise turf by sowing, turf laying, springing, and chaffing or colonisation in sporting, public recreational open space, commercial, and residential sites.

AHCTRF309 Implement a grassed area maintenance program

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to maintain general turf grass surfaces including the general processes for cutting and trimming grass, de-thatching older grassed areas, applying fertilisers, and treatments for administrating grass health.

AHCWAT303 Access, extract and monitor water for irrigation

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise and analyse common water holding licenses and accounts that are used to access and extract irrigation water, involving water attached to entitlements and water that is available on the temporary market. It also involves implementing water deliveries and end of season review. Irrigators might own and operate their own infrastructure and access water via infrastructure within an irrigation network.

AHCWRK317 Coordinate work site activities

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to coordinate work site activities for small-scale projects.

AHCWRK321 Provide on-job training support

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to provide OJT support.

AHCWRK322 Conduct site inspections

The unit of competency explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to conduct a site inspection, involving verification of the location, ownership, orientation, and boundaries of a site.

PUASES008 Undertake storm and water damage operations

The unit of competency includes the abilities as well as the talents needed to undertake storm and water damage operations as a member of a response team.

TLILIC2014 License to drive a light rigid vehicle

The unit includes the abilities as well as the talents needed to obtain a license to drive a light rigid vehicle. It involves systematically and effectively controlling all vehicle functions, monitoring traffic, and road conditions, administering vehicle condition, and achievement, and efficiently administering hazardous situations.

TLILIC2015 License to drive a medium rigid vehicle

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to obtain a license to drive a medium rigid vehicle. It involves systematically and efficiently controlling all vehicle functions, monitoring traffic and road conditions, administering vehicle condition, and achievement, and efficiently administering hazardous situations.

TLILIC2016 License to drive a heavy rigid vehicle

The unit includes the abilities as well as the talents needed to obtain a license to drive a heavy rigid vehicle. It involves systematically and efficiently controlling all vehicle functions, monitoring traffic, and road conditions, administering vehicle condition, and achievement, and efficiently administering hazardous situations.

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