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Elements and Performance Criteria
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Performance Evidence
Knowledge Evidence
The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:
principles and practices of turf healthbotany and turf physiology as it applies to turf healthmain, simple and compound fertiliser products available to the enterprise including analysis, solubility, salt index, rates and costrates and regularity of recommended fertiliser and pesticide application to achieve optimum plant health objectives while minimising external environment impact through leaching, excessive spraying and overuserole of trace elements and nutrients required by turf grass plants, and symptoms of toxicities and deficienciessoil and plant tissue analysis as a monitoring and turf management tool, the main elements of analysis and their significance as indicators of nutritional deficiency and toxicityturf grass diseases, including commonly occurring regional diseases, seasonality, site history and visual disease symptoms