Course - Vegetable growing for novices

Wed 29 May 2013, 10.30am - 4.30pm

Join Christine Lavelle, lecturer in horticulture and ecology, on a course designed for novice gardeners who want to improve their vegetable growing skills.

Lettuces growing in the students' vegetable plots.

Event details

Date: Wednesday 29 May 2013
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Tutor: Christine Lavelle
Venue: Kew (How to find us)
Course Fee: £55 (£50 Concessions, Friends) - maximum capacity 25 places

How to book - download the booking form (pdf) or email for further information

About the course

This course is ideal for novice gardeners who have newly acquired an allotment or vegetable patch and would like to improve their vegetable growing skills. During the one day workshop students will study commonly grown vegetable crops, their cultivation requirements, pest and disease problems, crop rotation, fertilisers, green manures and composting.

‘Informative, interactive and fun!’

Christine Lavelle is a lecturer in horticulture and ecology at Writtle College, Chelmsford, UK, and an external examiner for the School of Horticulture at the Kew. She trained at the National Trust for Scotland’s Threave School of Practical Gardening and at Kew. Christine was assistant Head Gardener at Levens Hall topiary gardens in Kendal and Hardy Ornamentals Team leader at Askham Bryan College in York. Her main areas of work are in organic growing and wildlife gardening. Together, Christine and her husband Michael Lavelle won the Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award in 2003 and 2008 for their books Organic Gardening and How to Create a Wildlife Garden (both published by Lorenz Books).