Category: Event

Put Your Garden to Bed for Winter Workshop

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Where: Belhaven Hospital Sensory Garden

Put The Garden to Bed for Winter Workshop – 10th November 10:30 – 12:30 Belhaven Sensory Garden

 Kate Darrah is a Horticulturist who trained with the Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh and Scottish Agricultural College. She has lead on the planting of Belhaven Hospital Sensory Garden. Come learn from Kate how to put your garden to bed for winter and enable soil organisms to break down mulch for plant food in Spring.

This workshop is hands on and includes:

How to weed thoroughly, without disturbing bulbs;

How to cut back herbaceous perennial plants, leaving those with attractive winter form (e.g. grasses);

How to deal with annuals, including saving seeds;

How to tidy woody shrubs/trees

How to deadhead and tidy roses;

Why and how to mulch; and

Protection for tender plants.

Cost: Free

For more information and to reserve your place on this workshop contact: info@sustainingdunbar.org or call: 01368 866 920.

Get Growing

It is time to get planning and planting the next crop.  If you find it hard to find the time to just sit down and plan your garden – your not alone.

Saturday 9th November 1 pm – 3 pm at Belhaven Community Garden

If you would like to get some help to get started to plan your edible garden then this session will:

  • Give you the time and space to map your existing garden;
  • Map what has worked well for you over the years and what hasn’t worked well;
  • Share ideas with other people living in the area;
  • Plan this seasons crop of edible plants;
  • Learn about composting and how worms work, and
  • If you don’t have a garden we can try and help you find some growing ground
  • Hands on learn how to plant garlic, overwintered onions or broad beans

Rob Ford will be there on tap to answer any questions and give advice.  Rob has years of organic market gardening experience in Scotland. He designs and maintains bespoke kitchen gardens and tutors individuals, families and groups to learn how to grow their own food.

For more information contact: info@sustainingdunbar.org