Pesticide and Herbicide Courses

[woodster]

Much the same as my other thread really so sorry of I'm boring anyone with my question's

 

I realise I should not use Pesticides and Herbicides on a commercial basis without training so I need to get on and sort this, pulling weeds is great when you look back but its back breaking when you know you can use a product to do a better job.

 

What are the legal requirements and where should I start??

 

Marc

[headgroundsman]

Try contacting the local agri/horticultural college

[Steve Bullman]

PA1 and PA6 is what you need, unless its changed since I did it.

 

PA1 is possibly THE most tedious course I have ever done, and I had the misfortune of sitting it twice

[Stu]

just passed my pA1 and PA6 but i didnt do the normal PA6 i did PA6AW which means i can use pesticies in and around water so might be worth trying to do the PA6AW aswell, theres alot of stuff packed into two days but its a good course

[woodster]

Great, thanks for the replies....

 

headgroundsman: I looked loaclly after putting the post up so thanks for that.

Steve Bulman: Its still PA1 and PA6 as it seems, I just wasn't sure when I started looking whether they were the correct courses to start with.

Stu: Yeah PA6AW is the one we need for the next site which starts in October as it has a stream running through the site, so I'll book that one.