Starting a Gardening Maintenance Business
Growing & Vines
A course by
The Career Academy
Turn your love for gardening into a profitable business with this practical, hands-on online course. Learn garden maintenance, turf repair, landscaping, and how to start your own business using Xero and modern tools.
NZ$3,305
inc GST
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Core skills this course teaches
Develop garden maintenance skills
Gain practical knowledge in maintaining lawns, gardens, and landscapes, including turf repair, weed/pest control, and irrigation.
Learn to design and landscape home gardens
Understand garden styles, plans, basic landscape construction, and plant care to create attractive home gardens.
About This Course
This online course is designed for those wanting to pursue or start a garden maintenance and landscaping business in New Zealand. You’ll acquire hands-on, practical skills in garden and lawn care, pest and weed control, landscape design, and essential small business operations including use of Xero and AI for business management and digital marketing. The qualification is industry-accredited and provides unlimited tutor support, flexible study options, and career coaching services to help you succeed as either a self-employed gardener or as part of a team. No exams required; the course is fully online and accessible for six months.
Course Content
- Certificate in Garden Maintenance: Planning a garden, furnishings & machinery, feeding plants, weed and pest control (including natural and chemical), turf management, irrigation, maintenance of plants.
- Certificate in Turf Repair and Renovation: Turf deterioration, repair equipment, turf cultivation and health, turf replacement and renovation, weeds and drainage, turf nursery management.
- Certificate in Landscaping Home Gardens: Garden design, styles, drawing plans, soils, basic landscape construction, surfacing (lawns), garden features, planting & pruning.
- Start Your Own Business with Xero & AI: Business structures, business planning, accounting and bookkeeping, Xero certification, digital marketing with AI (optional).
Build towards these roles
Garden Maintenance Business OwnerSelf-Employed GardenerLawn Care SpecialistLandscape Maintenance WorkerGarden Maintenance ContractorProperty Maintenance ProviderResidential GroundskeeperCommercial Garden TechnicianGardening Services OperatorGarden Waste Management Contractor
The Career Academy is here to transform your future. As an internationally recognised online education provider, they partner with industry to deliver courses that are practical, flexible, and designed to get results. With expert tutors, a 4.8/5 star student rating, and graduates in New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and the UK, The Career Academy has already helped over 25,000 learners each year gain the skills, confidence, and qualifications to take their next step. You could be next.
