{"id":6072,"date":"2025-09-11T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/?page_id=6072"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:30:16","slug":"5m2586-horticulture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/staff-documents\/qqi-descriptor\/qqi-level-5\/5m2586-horticulture\/","title":{"rendered":"5M2586 Horticulture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Download Programme Descriptor\u00a0anseo<\/a><\/p>

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Specific Validation Requirements<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

The following programme modules must be included<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
5N1433<\/a><\/td>Work Practice<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
5N2546<\/a><\/td>Plant Protection<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
5N2528<\/a><\/td>Plant Science<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
5N2527<\/a><\/td>Plant Identification and Use<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
5N2530<\/a><\/td>Soil Science and Growing Media<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
A minimum credit value of 15 from the following components<\/em><\/h5><\/td><\/tr>
5N0690<\/a><\/td>Communications<\/td>15<\/td>This descriptor will deactivate in June 2026<\/td><\/tr>
5N1367<\/a><\/td>Team working<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
5N1390<\/a><\/td>Personal Effectiveness<\/td>15<\/td>This descriptor will deactivate in June 2026<\/td><\/tr>
6N2191<\/a><\/td>Ceannaireacht<\/td>15<\/td>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
A minimum credit value of 30 from the following components<\/em><\/h5><\/td><\/tr>
5N2549<\/td>Organic Production<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2550<\/td>Organic Principles and Standards<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2547<\/a><\/td>Plant Propagation<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2552<\/td>Fruit and Vegetable Production<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2551<\/td>Garden Design<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N1908<\/a><\/td>Landscape Construction and Maintenance<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N1794<\/a><\/td>Safety and Health at Work<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2555<\/td>Artificial Sports Surfaces<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2548\u00a0<\/td>Ornamental Horticulture<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2554<\/td>Beekeeping<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N1604<\/td>Computer Aided Draughting (2D)<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2553<\/td>Biodiversity and the Natural Environment<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N0731<\/td>Hand Held Pesticide Application<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N1797<\/td>Boom Sprayer Pesticide Application<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N1750\u00a0<\/td>Chemical Fertiliser Application<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N1418<\/td>Start your Own Business<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2431\u00a0<\/td>Turf Grass Establishment and Maintenance<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
5N2559\u00a0<\/a><\/td>Horticultural Mechanisation<\/td>5<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
The remaining credit value of 15 can be obtained by using relevant component(s) from level 5.<\/em><\/h5>
A maximum of 15 credits can be used from either level 4 or level 6.<\/em><\/h5>

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Horticulture 5M2586 Download Programme Descriptor\u00a0here Click on the component code below to download an individual component Code Title Credit Specific Validation Requirements The following programme modules must be included 5N1433 Work Practice 15 \u00a0 5N2546 Plant Protection 15 \u00a0 5N2528 Plant Science 15 \u00a0 5N2527 Plant Identification and Use 15 \u00a0 5N2530 Soil Science and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5855,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"left-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"normal-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6072\/revisions\/6097"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}