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SUMMARY:Create your own Kitchen Garden
DESCRIPTION:Embark on a journey into the world of kitchen gardening with our Head Kitchen Gardener ChiChi and trusty assistant Copper the dog. This comprehensive course provides hands-on experience and practical insights to help you create and nurture your own thriving kitchen garden at home. From exploring the garden’s highlights to selecting seeds\, engaging in propagation techniques\, and learning essential gardening practices\, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills for a successful gardening venture. Join us for a day of discovery\, delicious garden soup\, and a Q&A session\, leaving with the foundation to cultivate a healthy and flourishing kitchen garden of your own.\n  \n    \n\nThis Course is £120 including tea\, garden snacks\, lunch\, and all sowing materials.\n  \n \n  \n\n10am – Arrive at Sculpture by the Lakes.\nYou will meet your course providers\, ChiChi and Copper who will take you on a tour of the Kitchen Garden. You will also see and taste what is growing and the highlights at this time of the year.\n\n  \nSession one 10.30-11.30\nWe will have a look at different components of the kitchen garden from the propagation greenhouse\, polytunnel\, fruit garden\, vegetable and cut flower bed\, and herb garden.\nWe will also look at different areas like a shade area and south facing walls which provide excellent growing conditions for tender plants.\n\n  \nSession two 11.30-12.30\nWe will come into the polytunnel classroom to do some planning practice on paper. This will help you understand what and when to grow in different seasons to ensure a year-round supply whether grown from pots or from a large allotment garden.\n12.30-13.10\nEnjoy a delicious garden lunch made with our own Kitchen Garden produce.\n\n  \nSession three 13.10-14.40\nWe will start choosing what you would like to grow from our seed collection\, including vegetables\, herbs and flowers. Then we will practice some propagation methods of sowing seeds and pricking out seedlings which you can take home with you\nChiChi will share her favourite varieties and show you how to DIY a simple propagation heating bench\, which you can make at home to give your kitchen garden a flying start and enable you to grow tender plants.\n\n  \nSession four 14.40-15.30\nChiChi will show you how to start a No-Dig garden and how to look after your soil as well as some trade secrets on how you can minimize the problem of pests and diseases.\nWe will plant seedlings out in the garden and cover various ways of protecting them during this vulnerable stage.\nFinally\, we will look at how to make great compost at home as well as making your own natural feeds to nourish your soil.\n\n  \nQ&A 15.30-16.00\nWith this excellent foundation of how to start your own Kitchen Garden\, ChiChi will then answer any questions you might have and also discuss the future support for creating your own healthy Kitchen Garden.\n\n  \nCourse ends. After which you will be free to roam the rest of Sculpture by the Lakes until 5pm.\n\n  \n\nReserve your place here:\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sculpturebythelakes.co.uk/event/create-your-own-kitchen-garden/
LOCATION:Sculpture by the Lakes\, Pallington Lakes\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT2 8QU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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