Practical Vegetable Gardening

10 week Practical Vegetable Gardening

Every Saturday 11th May – 13th July 2013 10am – 1pm

The course will teach all about mixed vegetable gardening, the theory and application of permaculture design and cover many different clever sustainable gardening techniques to maximise the amount of vegetables you can get from a space. Each session will be roughly half theory and half practical, with different aspects of design covered every week. By the end of the course we will have a completed a finished permaculture design, and learnt many different techniques, from advanced skills to basic gardening techniques.
Each week can be done individually, or as part of the course.

• Session 1: Permaculture Principles – 11th May 2013

• Session 2: Surveying the Garden – 18th May 2013

• Session 3: Using Weeds as Soil Indicators – 25th May 2013

• Session 4: Soil Restoration and Preparation – 1st June 2013

• Session 5: Growing in Tiny Spaces – 8th June 2013

• Session 6: Companion Planting & Plants to grow with a Garden – 15th June 2013

• Session 7: Gardening for wildlife you want and wildlife you don’t – 22nd June 2013

• Session 8: Growing food in Shady Spaces – 29th June 2013

• Session 9: Making your own Organic Fertilizer – 6th July 2013

• Session 10: How to extend the growing season with a hotbed – 13th July 2013

Find out lots more detail about this course at our website www.stepneycityfarm.org

Fees include tuition, refreshments, handouts, information sheets and email advice.