Employee Landscape Training
Give your crew members the tools they need to succeed and let Penn State Extension streamline your training practices with our on-demand online courses. These online courses provide basic training for new and seasonal employees in pruning, planting, watering, mulching, new lawn establishment, identifying plant health problems, and soils. Get started today by registering yourself or a group of employees.
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Online Courses$19.00
Employee Landscape Training: Reading Landscape Plans
Sections 4Length 2 hoursThis course helps businesses train beginner and seasonal employees to read landscape plans in order to place hardscapes and plants in a landscape. Earn PCH credits. -
Online Courses$19.00
Employee Landscape Training: Pruning Basics
Sections 6Length 2 hours, 30 minutesThis course helps landscape businesses train beginner and seasonal employees in pruning trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants, and apply the skills at work. Earn PCH credits. -
Online Courses$19.00
Employee Landscape Training: New Lawn Establishment
Sections 1Length 30 minutesThis course helps landscape businesses train beginner and seasonal employees to prepare, till, grade, fertilize, seed, mow and water new lawns and turfgrass. Earn PCH credits. -
Online Courses$19.00
Employee Landscape Training: Planting, Mulching, and Watering
Sections 2Length 1 hour, 30 minutesThis course helps landscape businesses train beginner and seasonal employees to inspect and handle nursery stock, dig, edge, mulch, water, and stake trees. Earn PCH credits. -
Online Courses$19.00
Employee Landscape Training: Symptoms and Signs of Plant Health Problems
Sections 4Length 2 hoursThis course helps businesses train employees to recognize symptoms and signs of stress in plants, including damage and diseases. Earn 4 Category 6, 18, 23, or Private Category credits. Earn PCH credits. -
Online Courses$19.00
Employee Landscape Training: Introduction to Soils
Sections 3Length 2 hoursThis course helps landscape businesses train beginner and seasonal employees to identify soil properties, fertilize and amend soils, and grade, level, and fill. Earn PCH credits.