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ONE DAY COURSE
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MAY 8th 2010
GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES
WHEN TO GROW, WHEN TO PLANT AND HOW
TO
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This one day course will cover the basics of
starting a vegetable garden and of growing
in a poly tunnel.
The course is run on a four acre
smallholding, which boasts a wide variety of
poultry, pigs, sheep, goats, vegetables, a
poly tunnel, a mature orchard, a Coffee Shop
and a Farm Shop.
You will learn about soils and seedbed
preparation, fertility and manures, seeds
and sowing, plants and planting, weed and
weeding.
Our aim will be to help you start the
growing year, be it in a window box or on an
acre or more.
The Course will include:
• Soil types, their assets and attributes
• Fertility and the requirements of plants
• Seed bed preparation
• Sowing seeds
• Planting plants
• Greenhouse Growing of seedlings
• Preventing Pests and diseases
• Weeds and weeding
• Water requirements and irrigation
• Timing and seasonality
• Costs and returns
• Machinery and tools
We expect to send you away from this course
with the confidence and knowledge to get
your garden growing and producing wonderful,
flavourful, home grown produce, with the
minimum of work and worry.
You can book your place on this course on
line, right now.
 
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