one-day course kitchen gardening

venue: Hackney City Farm, London

Fresh vegetables, fruit and herbs are the tastiest and most nutritious way to stay healthy. As people become more conscious of the real cost of the food they eat, more and more turn to organic produce. Ideally this is produced locally and often follows seasonal patterns.

Growing your own food is a natural extension of this idea, plus it's fun, keeps you fit and saves you money. Whether you have an allotment, town garden or containers on a balcony or patio, an interesting and varied selection of vegetables, fruit and herbs can be grown successfully and cropped for fresh use or stored for later.

This course will look at the ways in which you can use your space to its best advantage, and give you lots of tips for creating a productive and beautiful kitchen garden.

The course includes:

• soil preparation - different methods and ideas
• planting onion sets, chitting potatoes, hardening off
• fertilisers, compost and feeds
• mulching, watering, companion planting, pests
• harvesting and storing fruit, vegetables & herbs
  

more on gardening

you can organise your kitchen garden so that you can go out and pick something most days - lots of vitamins, zero food miles and good fun

thinning out seedlings in a small urban garden

it's not just veg and salads - fruit trees, bushes and ground fruit will provide vitamins, colour and flowers for you and your garden