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Composting: steps to success

The Vine Road Pavillion, Vine Road Recreation Ground, Vine Road, Barnes

20 Sep 2025 | Accredited training

Composting is a fantastic way to turn your waste into beautiful, crumbly soil that can be used in your garden. Composting can go wrong though – is your compost heap soggy, smelly or simply not breaking down? Do you find that some of the information out there is confusing and contradictory? In this workshop, we will look at the basics of how to compost effectively at home. We’ll also cover the importance of soil health, and how we maintain this at the growing project.

Composting is a fantastic way to turn your waste into beautiful, crumbly soil that can be used in your garden. Composting can go wrong though – is your compost heap soggy, smelly or simply not breaking down? Do you find that some of the information out there is confusing and contradictory? In this workshop, we will look at the basics of how to compost effectively at home. We’ll also cover the importance of soil health, and how we maintain this at the growing project.

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Climate Resilient Borders: One Day Workshop

EcoLocal The Lodge, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 3NX

27 Sep 2025 | Accredited training

Creating a beautiful garden border that stands up to the challenges of climate change is no small feat. We need our garden borders to be resilient as well as stunning all year round. Led by our RHS qualified tutor, you’ll learn: techniques for ‘successional’ planting to maintain year-round colour how to improve your soil to ensure your plants thrive how to choose plants for difficult situations tips and tricks for being water wise about some of the new climate-change pests and dise

Creating a beautiful garden border that stands up to the challenges of climate change is no small feat. We need our garden borders to be resilient as well as stunning all year round. Led by our RHS qualified tutor, you’ll learn: techniques for ‘successional’ planting to maintain year-round colour how to improve your soil to ensure your plants thrive how to choose plants for difficult situations tips and tricks for being water wise about some of the new climate-change pests and dise

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Forest Garden Design Course

Edible Landscapes London, Finsbury Park

27 Sep 2025 | Accredited training

Imagine your garden or community space looking as lovely as a woodland edge. Imagine that on top of looking wonderfully wild, it produces an abundance of nutrient dense food and will ultimately need very little digging, weeding, manual watering or pest control – all in harmony with other more-than-human beings. This is ‘an edible forest garden’. Come join our 2-day Forest Garden course, 27-28th Sep, giving you the tools you need to design your own forest garden. Hosted in ELL's forest

Imagine your garden or community space looking as lovely as a woodland edge. Imagine that on top of looking wonderfully wild, it produces an abundance of nutrient dense food and will ultimately need very little digging, weeding, manual watering or pest control – all in harmony with other more-than-human beings. This is ‘an edible forest garden’. Come join our 2-day Forest Garden course, 27-28th Sep, giving you the tools you need to design your own forest garden. Hosted in ELL's forest

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Autumn propagation workshop at EcoLocal

EcoLocal The Lodge, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 3NX

25 Oct 2025 | Accredited training

The art of plant propagation is as old as civilisation. With techniques learned and adapted from nature, we can produce plants for our gardens and allotments, with enough left over to share with friends. In this practical workshop we will cover techniques that can be undertaken throughout autumn and winter, some of which may be unfamiliar. You’ll learn about: Hardwood cuttings Leaf cuttings Root cuttings Air layering Seed sowing including chipping and vernalisation

The art of plant propagation is as old as civilisation. With techniques learned and adapted from nature, we can produce plants for our gardens and allotments, with enough left over to share with friends. In this practical workshop we will cover techniques that can be undertaken throughout autumn and winter, some of which may be unfamiliar. You’ll learn about: Hardwood cuttings Leaf cuttings Root cuttings Air layering Seed sowing including chipping and vernalisation

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