Day 1, 10am to 5pm

The costs and benefits of creating an undug growing space

• Maintaining productive soil without cultivation, the key to healthier growth with less weeds and better returns.
• Setting up an area for market growing: how big, how quickly, mulching inputs.
• Weeding, often the Achilles heel of soil cultivators. No dig means many less weeds – the details.
• Growing in tunnels and under cover, including the uses of fleece and pest-protection covers.
  

Day 2, 9am to 2.30pm

Details for good growing.

• Propagation – composts; seed, including seed saving; using trays; sowing, multisowing and pricking out; watering; hardening off, or not; heating a propagating space; a look at hotbeds.
• Time needed proportionate to costs and returns for different vegetables, depending on the local market.
• Finer points of both growing and picking salad leaves, currently the only profitable crop for smaller growers.
• Tips for selling in less time, the importance of continuity, and how to describe your growing to the public.
  

For accommodation on Saturday night, check out the local B&Bs at the bottom of this page.

For those who wish to gather for an evening meal on the Saturday night, we book a table at a local pub. The meal is at your own cost.

Food and refreshments during both days are included. Lunch is made from vegetables harvested from Homeacres’ garden, so you’ll enjoy a taste of the season's finest.