Kitchen Gardening: Springtime

The first of two seasonal weekend courses on creating and managing a successful and abundant kitchen food garden. The courses will take place at the inspiring Sustainability Centre in Hampshire and you can choose to attend either one or both weekends.

The courses will include hands-on practical gardening sessions and all the theory you need to make your kitchen garden grow and keep your larder full. From crop planning to soil care, pest control to storing produce, these courses will show you environmentally friendly and sustainable approaches to growing your own food. The courses will give you time saving and energy saving tips and inspire you to create a garden that works in harmony with nature.

The Springtime course will cover: seasons in the gardener’s year, crop planning, jobs to do in winter and spring, permaculture methods which will help you create a more productive garden, soil care, testing and profiling, different kinds of composting and mulching, no-dig methods, crop planning to produce food all year round and how to observe and work with the different microclimates in your garden.

Your tutor is Caroline Aitken of Patrick Whitefield Associates.