"Have a grow" days

If you would like to come down and get a feel for the types of things we do with the fruit and veg, sign up for one of our Have a Grow Days. Tea and coffee (most importantly!) at 10.30, followed by - depending on the time of year - the opportunity to try out some key gardening skills. The session ends at 12.30, and if you like what you see, you can join a Growing Session on a regular basis. These are the dates for 2021/2022 Have a Grow Days:

• 7 July 2021 : Try your hand at digging up potatoes; preparing the soil to sow squash and pumpkins; planting cucumber and aubergines in the poly-tunnel; making comfrey "tea", and sowing bee-loving flowers

• 8 September 2021 : more potatoes to bring in (this time "maincrop"); sowing winter salad crops; tidying the site after the Summer bounty; time to start apple picking!

• 10 November 2021 : sow broad beans; make a rotation plan for 2022 veg; late apples ready to pick; to dig or not to dig?!; mulching the outside beds

• 23 February 2022 : plant early potatoes; clean the poly-tunnel and plant pots; choose the seeds we would like to grow in 2022; plant onion and garlic sets

• 26 April 2022 : bank up soil around the potato plants; sow carrots, beetroot, parsnip and spinach outdoors; sow hardy flowers, sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli indoors; planting on; start hardy herb containers