Similar to the section on the plants grown in protected environments, you will need to be able to discuss factors to consider when growing plants in the home. These could be: temperatures, light levels, humidity, whether people walking past could knock the plant over, how you are going to water the plant and pollution/dust problems.… Continue reading R2114 Houseplants
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R2114 Plants grown in a protected environment
Protected environments are used to overwinter plants (eg: Nerium oleander), produce more (eg: Solanum lycopersicum) and for display reasons (eg: Saintpaulia ionantha). The syllabus requires you to be able to discuss the properties and characteristics of the containers you could use in a protected environment. Also, you should be able to talk about why you… Continue reading R2114 Plants grown in a protected environment
R2114 Protected Structures
For this exam paper, you will need to be able to draw and describe a range of protected structures, together with an explanation of why they are used. I'm not going to draw all the structures here - frankly, my attempts at drawing using software packages on a laptop are embarrassing. I believe that for… Continue reading R2114 Protected Structures
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