Food Growing Training

Growing Herbs and Edible Flowers: Tuesday 30th April 2024

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Learn how to propagate and grow your own tasty herbs and edible flowers to add flavour and vibrancy to your meals. Filling our outdoor spaces with herbs and edible flowers adds welcome scent and colour for us and benefits our urban wildlife too. Created and delivered by our RHS qualified tutor, the workshop includes lots

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Plant Health: Saturday 18th May 2024 

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From mini-beasts to mega-beasts, diseases and nutrient deficiencies, it can feel as though our plants are under constant attack! In this information-packed workshop we will help you identify friend from foe and bid farewell to chemical interventions as we take you through the organic way of plant health management. Created and delivered by our RHS

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Bud Grafting Apple trees: Saturday 20th July 2024

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Learn how to propagate fruit trees by bud-grafting, at this one day workshop led by our RHS qualified and experienced fruit grower and tutor. Learn the technical theory behind budding to propagate onto a variety of rootstock to produce upright, cordon, espalier and step-over trees. The workshop includes hands-on sessions to gain practical skills in bud-grafting

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Summer Pruning of Stone and Trained Fruit – Victorian Walled Garden, Carshalton: Saturday 3rd August 2024

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Summer is the time to prune stone fruit (plums, cherries, peaches and others) and trained apples and pears. Fruit pruning can seem a bit daunting until you have had some practice and in this one-day workshop you will learn the skills needed to keep your trees healthy and producing quality fruit for many years. Have

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Pruning Stone Fruit – Practise on the Farm: Saturday 24th August 2024

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A hands-on workshop with lots of opportunity to practice pruning cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches and apricots in the polytunnels at Sutton Community Farm. This workshop will also cover the theory behind good pruning, with a focus on summer stone fruit and regenerative pruning. Held at: Sutton Community Farm, 40A Telegraph Track, Wallington, London SM6 0SH Date:

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