BASIS
BASIS - 'Understanding turfgrass management, pest weed and disease control, environmental issues and legislation'
A dedicated course for the BASIS qualification is being held and administered by STRI at Bingley.
Next Due Dates:
Week 1: Tuesday 31st August - Friday 3rd September
Week 2: Monday 27th September - Friday 1st October
Exam: Monday 18th October - Wednesday 20th October
We have started to take bookings for our 2010 course, please contact us to ensure your place.
The experts at STRI offer BASIS courses in Amenity Horticulture, including a dedicated turf course developed by STRI specifically to meet the requirements of the BASIS qualification with a turf skill area.
The BASIS certificate in Crop Protection - Amenity Horticulture for field, sales and technical staff (FSTS), is the national qualification for all those advising on the use, selling or supplying of plant protection products in the amenity industry. This includes contractors, distributors and plant protection products manufacturers. Also all suppliers, consultants, course managers and local authority managers involved in pesticide sales or advice
The qualification is certified by BASIS and advisers holding the certificate become members of the BASIS Professional Register.
As the amenity industry includes hard surfaces, turf, forestry, motorway, road verge, aquatic and industrial site maintenance the Amenity Horticulture certificate is split into core modules and skill areas. The core modules are studied by all plus at least one of three skill areas chosen from turf, hard surfaces, shrubs or a combination if required.
This dedicated course is nine days long completed over two separate weeks followed by two days of exams and includes an on-line learning support package
Programme: Week 1
Day 1
- Course introduction
- Introduction into virtual learning
- Introduction to plant protection products and legislation surrounding their approval and use
Day 2
- Introduction to pests
- Important non-turfgrass pests
- Turfgrass pests
- Integrated pest management and insecticides
- Pest identification - course walk
Day 3
- Introduction to weeds
- Important non-turfgrass weeds
- Turfgrass weeds
- Integrated weed management and herbicides
- Weed indentification - course walk
Day 4
- Introduction to diseases
- Important non-turfgrass diseases
- Turfgrass diseases
- Integrated disease management and fungicides
- Disease identification - course walk
Day 5
Programme Week 2
Day 6
- Grass identification
- Grass characteristics and uses
- Amenity grass use programme
- Impact on biodiversity, the environment and water
- Construction, drainage and rootzone selection
Day 7
- Plant physiology
- Turf nutrition
- Identification keys
- Amenity horticulture management plans
Day 8
- Composition, activity and persistence of pesticides
- Pesticide store and application technology
- Pesticide use
- Operator and bystander safety
Day 9
- Turfgrass establishment
- Turfgrass maintenance
- Managing different surfaces
- Estate & course walk
Final Exams
- Multiple choice paper
- Identification test
- Oral exam
For more information on this course contact Sales & Marketing on 01274 518918
For delegates who are taking the current BASIS training please click Here for your link to the Virtual College site.
