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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Nursery and Garden Facility ZBB418 Elective Bachelor's degree 4 Spring 3

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Melekber SÜLÜŞOĞLU DURUL

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Recognize the properties of orchard and nursery plantation place
2) Makes nursery planning and establishes.
3) Established a fruit garden.
4) Knows modern plantation systems and techniques
5) Produce saplings economically.
6) Dominate the legislation about sapling classification and certification.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Learning Outcomes
1 Middle High Low No relation High No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
2 No relation No relation No relation No relation High No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
3 No relation No relation No relation No relation High High No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
4 No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation High No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
5 No relation No relation No relation No relation High No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
6 No relation No relation No relation No relation High No relation No relation High No relation No relation High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

The selection of the nursery place, the features to be considered in the selection of the nursery place, organization of nursery plantation and cultural treatments, parcelation in the nursery, the selection of orchard area, the planting systems, the features to be considered in the selection of the planting system, the preparation of the land and the orchard plantation, cultural treatments, uses of standard and dwarf rootstocks, sample projects preparation and examination, cultural operations in nurseries and gardens

Weekly Schedule

1) Orchard design and plantation, garden site selection
2) Artificial and natural fences, garden around the containment
3) preparing the orchard place
4) Planting systems and selection criteria
5) sapling plantation, pruning and cultural treatments
6) Irrigation systems
7) Rootstock and cultivar selection.
8) Midterm exam
9) Pruning systems and equipments
10) Selection of nursery place and preparation
11) Nursery division and rotation of sapling production
12) Plantation of rootstock and scion mother plots
13) Uprooted of saplings, burying,packaging, storage and transport
14) Seedlings classification, certification and legislation
15) Presentation of model gardens and nurseries from Turkey and the world
16) Final exam

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Drill and Practice


Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Semester Studies to Course Grade

50%

 

Number

Percentage

Semester Studies

Midterm Examination

1

50%

Practices

2

50%

 

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

50%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required