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January 2020
The Productive Garden
Led by Cat Stevens, our community gardener you will work on and learn about all the edibles in our garden in this 3 hour monthly workshop. The emphasis will be on essential things to do in the month to keep your garden productive. The workshop will be great for people with the intent to cultivate a largish space – perhaps an allotment, a large garden or a local community space - and plenty of energy to burn! It's an active,…
Find out more »February 2020
Design and Maintain Borders in the Garden
Another year of this long-standing workshop that has so far designed and planted our Hot! Border in the walled garden and the ‘Oudolf’ border in front of the deck. This course is designed to build confidence in a range of gardening jobs and to think about how to make your garden different. This year we will be redesigning our sensory border in the lower garden as well as implementing a design for the border outside the gate and all the…
Find out more »Maintaining the Kitchen Garden – 12 sessions over a year
This course will take place on Sundays once per month over the next 12 months until August 2020. Participants will plan and maintain the Kitchen Garden around the seating circle and the perennial kitchen garden. You will learn how to grow salads, vegetables, fruit and edible flowers in your own garden, balcony or allotment mostly grown from seed. The focus is on intensive growing for small spaces and on ‘no-dig’ gardening. This workshop is currently full. Contact Cat to wait…
Find out more »Winter Tree Pruning Workshop
Have you ever wanted to learn when and how to prune your fruit trees? Now is your chance. Join this winter fruit tree pruning workshop. This is a practical workshop in which Cat our community gardener will explain the principles of pruning, demonstrate these and then you will have the opportunity to do some practical hands on pruning. Cat will demonstrate different kinds of pruning cuts, and explain how and when these should be used. You will learn about the physiological…
Find out more »The Composter’s Year
Every year we produce around 30 tonnes of compost in the garden and this year we aim to produce even more as we have additional bays. This workshop is an opportunity to get to know all aspects of composting both theory and practice whilst helping your local community garden over a composting season. The workshop will run over 10 x 2 hour sessions once per month starting in October until next July. This is a practical course and there will…
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