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 grow your own vegetables
Due to Covid-19 This course has been cancelled for the foreseeable future

It is with regret that we have decided to cancel our Grow Your Own Vegetable course, we will revise our schedule and run the course when it is deemed safe to do so.


Topics covered include:
  • Site and aspect 
  • How to get the most from your garden or even your windowsill
  • Soil preparation, drainage and fertility, soil food web
  • Style of gardening
  • Propagation and methods that are environmentally sound (how to avoid using plastics)
  • Crop rotations
  • Companion planting



  • Transplanting
  • Disease and pest control
  • Composting
  • Tools of the trade
  • Encouraging biodiversity
  • How to garden while avoiding chemicals and pesticides
  • Upcycling and innovative methods of gardening that reduce labour

We will share valuable tips and our favourite sources of information and inspiration, which have helped us push our boundaries. 
You will learn about work-abouts, triumphs and catastrophes and the benefits that accrue.

For more information call Mervyn on 0872361508.

Workshop numbers will be kept small to allow ample opportunity for quality one-on-one ear bending.
Taking place on Saturday April 4th, 11th and 18th 2020, 10.00am - 5.00pm, lunch included.
The Veg Patch, Effernoge, Ferns, Co Wexford.

Cost of one day course €60.00

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