Home Gardening
Facilitator Guides
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Module 1: Garden Design and Establishment
Facilitator Guides
1. Identifying Resources
2. Site Evaluation
3. Establishing Your Garden
4. Fence Making
Specialized Garden Designs:
5.1 Gardening on steep slopes
5.2 Arid and drought-prone environments
5.3 Garden designs for heavy rains and flood-prone environments
5.4 Gardening on steep slopes
5.5 Keyhole gardens
Training Aids
– 5 Resources
– Soil compaction
– Elements of a well-prepared garden bed
Module 2: Healthy Soils
Facilitator Guides
1. Understanding and Identifying Healthy Soils
2. Building Healthy Soils
Module 3: Production Planning
Facilitator Guides
1. Planting Your Garden
2. Planting Your Nursery
Training Aids
– Grow more with triangle spacing
– Space plants so they do not compete for sunlight or root space
Module 6: Pests and Diseases
Module 7: Managing Water
Facilitator Guides
1. Water for Home Gardening
2. Building a Productive Mulch Pit for Recycling Wastewater
Module 8: Healthy Eating
Facilitator Guides
1. Healthy Diets for a Healthy Life
2. Cooking Demonstrations to Encourage Healthy Eating