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A workshop on Herbs and Edible Flowers – Saturday 20th May

Spice up your salads! This workshop will cover everything you need to know about growing your own tasty herbs and edible flowers to add flavour and vibrancy to meals. Filling our outdoor spaces with herbs and edible flowers adds welcome scent and colour for us and benefits our urban wildlife too.

Led by an RHS qualified horticultural tutor, the workshop provides lots of learning about how to grow herbs and edible flowers, plenty of information to take away and an opportunity to practice sowing seeds and taking cuttings.

Taking place in a lovely walled kitchen garden, this practical one-day workshop includes lots of planting ideas and some simple propagation techniques for you to try, so that you can take away a pot of your own herb cuttings. The cost is £38.

This course is at: Ecolocal, The Lodge, Honeywood walk, Carshalton SM5 3NX. Within the grounds of Carshalton Ecology Centre, by the ponds.

Find out more and book online HERE


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Short Organic Food Growing Course – starting 23rd April

EcoLocal, a Carshalton based charity are running their successful short course to help you to grow your own healthy, organic food without harming the environment.
For further information and to book, visit http://www.ecolocal.org.uk/highlight/organic-food-growing-course/

Comments from past students….

“It’s a great mix of practical and theory so the information goes in twice and ensures you’re more likely to remember!” 
“Very knowledgeable tutor”.
“I had only just got an allotment so the 6 lessons were exactly in line with what I needed.”

The course teaches eco-friendly gardening; no-dig methods, crop rotation, organic pest control, making natural fertilisers and more. It’s suitable for beginner and intermediate growers. teaching is a mixture of theory and practice, allowing students to try out the skills they learn, understanding how to plan, so they can make the most of their veg patch or allotment.

Running over 6 Saturday mornings, beginning 23rd April 2022.

The course is face to face outdoors for the practical skills teaching elements, taught on the Carshalton Community Allotments, just a 5 minute walk from Carshalton station. The theory is taught live via Zoom on alternate weeks. More travel information