Events

Royal Horticultural Society Seminar

Growing Vegetables

Wednesday, 16 November, 2005
RHS Conference Centre, Westminster, London

Promoted by the RHS/NVS Joint Liaison Committee

Cost: £15 (includes tea and coffee)

For further information contact the RHS ticket line at 020 7821 3408.

Programme

10.15am: Registration

10.45 - 11am Welcome by Medwyn Williams, Chairman of the Committee
11 - 11.40am Soil Fertility by Dr Paul Alexander, Soil Scientist
11.40am - 12.20pm Vegetable Growing after Pesticides by Andrew Halstead, Principle Entomologist
12.20 - 1pm Starting an Allotment by Guy Barter, Head of Horticultural Advisory Services

1 - 2pm Lunch

2 - 2.40pm Growing for Local Shows by David Thornton NVS
2.40 - 3.20pm Vegetable Growing in Small Gardens by Richard Bailey NVS

3.20 - 3.40pm Tea

3.40 - 4.20pm Greenhouse Vegetable Cultivation by Sue Stickland RHS
4.20pm Summing up and Close by Medwyn Williams

On arrival please enter the Conference Centre by the separate door situated at the right of the Lawrence Hall façade (in Greycoat Street). Registration will take place on the second floor of the Conference Centre; there is a lift available from reception. Please move down to the Lecture Theatre on the first floor in time to be seated by 10.45am.