Gardening Courses - advice?

Hi,

Once again i would like some advice please.
I am new to gardening and I would like to learn the basics as I have pretty much no clue about anything. I was hoping to enrol on a short gardeing course (I say 'short' cos I don't have hundreds of pounds for some of the long ones ive seen!). Does anyone know of a good course i could do for a beginner? I live in Bracknell in Berkshire.

Of course, if anyone knows of other ways of learning and gathering info (such as good books, gardeing groups etc), please let me know. Jut in case it helps to know, my garden is a jungle and needs completely doing from scratch - i'm just in the process of digging it all over to get rid of weeds and break the soil up, so I kinda need to learn what to do from there on in, as well as learning about plants, how to look after them, how to choose them, how to do jut about everything really.

Thank you for any advice - it's very much appreciated!

 

Busybee, a friend of mine did the RHS Foundation Course I think it was called. She did it by correspondence (like the OU) and found it really, really useful - she says she learnt a lot and enjoyed it. I'm thinking of doing it myself - not as a career, just for some additional learning and to keep my hand in with studying.

 

Thanks Aaron, i will look into that. Don't want a career from it, just need some knowledge as i literally have none!! - Thanks!