Growing and Using Citrus

Learn about growing citrus trees, study how to use citrus fruits, at home by distance education

Course Code: SGH20

Fee Code: SG

Duration (approx) Duration (approx) 20 hours

Qualification

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Where are you located?

Within Australia
AUD $220.00inc GST

Outside Australia
AUD $200.00

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Delivery Method
   Online
   E-Learning (not available) (USB stick via post)
   Correspondence (not available) (Paper notes via post)

All prices in Australian Dollars.

Learn what citrus to grow and how to grow it.

Citrus can be grown for its:

Nutritional value
Aesthetic value
Medicinal value

They are evergreen trees with unique leaves, fragrant flowers, and vibrant citrus colours that offer an exotic touch to any garden, terrace, deck, or balcony.

This course is a complete guide for growing successful citrus plants and for learning the various ways to use them.

Lesson Structure

There are 5 lessons in this course:

INTRODUCTION: SCOPE, NATURE, BOTANY AND TAXONOMY
- Citrus today
- Harvesting
- A brief history
- Botany of citrus
- Appearance
- Reproduction and variability
- Flowering and pollination
- Fruit development
- Number and classification of species
- Species of citrus
- Close relatives
- Microcitrus
- Eremocitrus
- Fortunell
- Poncirus
- Lesson 1 additional reading
- Review what you have been learning
CITRUS CULTIVATION
- Planting citrus trees
- What affects success?
- Temperature
- Frosts and cold winds
- Choose the right type
- Shade
- Tree size
- Root damage
- Container growing
- Soil
- Colloids
- Preparing the soil for planting
- Does your soil need gypsum?
- Planting technique
- Feeding
- Fertiliser applications
- Drainage
- Irrigation
- Measuring water availability to plants
- Irrigation
- Scheduling irrigation
- Important elements
- Period of watering
- Cyclic watering
- Pulse watering
- Water extraction by roots
- Types of irrigation
- Common citrus fruit problems
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Pests of citrus
- Diseases and viruses of citrus
- Planting lemon trees
- Planting technique
- Caring for lemon trees
- Pruning citrus
- Pruning a standard shape
- Renovating an old tree
- Pruning to improve fruit quality
- Pruning to improve tree health
- Review what you have been learning
CITRUS PROPAGATION
- Propagation options
- Grafting (budding)
- Budding techniques
- Dwarf trees and double grafts
- Growing from cuttings
- Growing from seed
- Review what you have been learning
CITRUS CULTIVARS
- Deciding what to grow
- Lemon tree selection
- Cumquats
- Unusual citrus
- Citrus fruit ripening chart
- Review what you have been learning
USING CITRUS
- Nutritional value of citrus
- How to extract citrus oils
- Freezing citrus
- Drying citrus
- Making use of excess lemons
- Making fresh lemonade
- Recipes
- Making jams/marmalade
- Marmalade
- Beetroot and orange chutney
- Citrus syrup cake
- Classic orange fennel and onion salad
- Easy salad dressing
- Easy pasta side dish
- Fruit butter/ fruit curd
- Lemon tart
- Lemon dipping sauce - Asian style
- Lettuce cups with chicken and citrus
- Lime chutney
- Marinade for chicken
- Marinade for steak
- Orange salad
- Orange couscous
- Salsa topping for salmon or trout
- Review what you have been learning
- Final assessment

Who is this course for?

This course can be professional development for:

Farmers who wish to value add to their produce
Home gardener
Produce processor
Commercial fruit farmers or their employees
Start-up entrepreneurs producing food products on a small scale
Hobby Farmer

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