Grow-your-own training Penrith

Learn how to get started growing your own fruit and veg:

• deciding what you want to grow & planning how it would work in your garden
• clearing a horticultural site
• establishing crops
• seed propagation
• vegetative propagation
• pest & disease identification & control
• watering & feeding
• ongoing monitoring of crop growth & harvesting

The new Eden Housing Association polytunnel is on Greystoke Road at the entrance to Skiddaw View - map

10 places.  FREE but please book.  Bring your own packed lunch.

The training is being given by VistaVeg, our local veg bag growing co-operative.

Note: the event may be filmed - let us know if you do not want to be included.

• Please bring a soil sample from their garden or veg plot with them if you wish (we just need a small amount from a little way beneath the surface)
• Please bring a pair of gardening gloves if you have any (we have some but not enough for everyone)