Grow your own fruit - Spring/Summer/Winter workshops

Non-organic fruits are sprayed many times with herbicides and pesticides during production and organic fruit is often imported from far away.  Solution: grow it yourself! How? Phil will show you.  Apples, pears, plums, strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, nuts and a whole range of delicious fruit that may not be so familiar can all be easily grown if you do the right things at the right time.

Spring workshop, Sunday March 21

• What to plant - choosing and sourcing the right plants
• How to plant - finding the best site
• Feeding and protecting your plants - fertilisers and mulches

Summer Workshop, Saturday July 3

• Harvesting and storing your fruit crop
• Bird protection, pest and disease control
• Companion planting and summer pruning
• Growing under glass and polytunnels

Winter workshop, Saturday November 27

• Pruning and propagating your own stock
• Unusual fruiting plants
• Forest gardens and landscaping with fruiting plants

Days may be booked individually but please note that there is a saving of €20 when all three are booked together.