This one-day course, for beginners and improvers, aims to help you to get the best from your organic vegetable growing – whatever ‘best’ means for you.

It will cover a short overview of what ‘organic’ means in practice*, variety and crop choice, crop rotation, pest, disease and weed management and making compost. There will be lots of helpful hints and tips , including advice on how to avoid ‘gluts’ and ‘famines’ – and plenty of time for questions. There will also be a walk round the Landshare plots in the old kitchen garden, where five families are growing their own veg in a range of different ways. 

 Are you concerned about the amount of potentially harmful chemicals sprayed on the fruit and vegetables you buy?  Here is a list of the dirtiest dozen, worst first:  Peach, Apple, Bell Pepper, Celery, Nectarine, Strawberries, Cherries, Kale, Lettuce, Grapes, Carrot, Pear (taken from the Shopper's guide to Pesticides).  Growing your own will help you to avoid some of the daily dosage and will give you tremendous pleasure and satisfaction, and the added and considerable benefits of working outside.

Our tutor is Pauline Pears of Garden Organic (click on her name above to see more about her).