If you’re looking for a comprehensive, science-based, horticulture and gardening essentials course, our Home Horticulture Certificate could be for you!

This expert-led course provides the same training as our popular Master Gardener Online program, which offers an exceptional experience that will help your garden thrive.

Certificate of Home Horticulture

Upon completion of this accelerated summer course, you will receive a Certificate of Home Horticulture.The curriculum for the online Home Horticulture course includes an innovative online format that includes:

Recorded lectures on a variety of required topics

Additional lectures for optional specialized knowledge

Lively forum assignments and discussions with other students

Weekly quizzes to help you retain information

Extensive additional resources to help ensure your long-term success

We have traditionally offered this option alongside our Master Gardener Online program, which takes 12 weeks to complete. This new summer intensive version of the course allows you to gain the same training in a fraction of the time!Our summer intensive program will not provide a pathway to "Master Gardener certification." For MG certification, check out Option 1.

Home Horticulture Overview

The Master Gardener & Home Horticulture Basic Training course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about the effective and sustainable management of their home horticultural landscape. There are no course prerequisites, although a basic understanding of plants is helpful.In this course you will learn about the art and the science of caring for plants.

During the seven weeks, we will examine:

Plant types (e.g. woody, herbaceous)

Garden types (e.g. container, vegetable)

Elements that influence the growth and vigor of plants in the home garden (e.g. pathogens, soils, insects, management decisions)

We will also focus on the prevention and diagnosis of plant problems, as well as a least toxic approach to tolerating and/or managing plant problems in the home horticultural landscape.

Home Horticulture Objective

By the end of this online Home Horticulture program, you will learn: