Ready to take your vegetable growing further? Explore new crops, propagation techniques, and tips for a thriving garden in this upskiller session.
This session is about confidence building and extending skills in vegetable growing. You will explore a wider range of crops and different growing methods, considering opportunities for different crops, relevant techniques, and growing conditions.
Susie will share her horticultural knowledge and experience, guiding you through plant propagation techniques such as seed sowing, pricking out, and transplanting, addressing some of the common vegetable growing challenges with practical and sustainable ways to manager them (watering, feeding, diseases) and generally how to keep your vegetable plot healthy and productive.
There will also be a practical element to this workshops. You will have the opportunity to do some hands-on propagation, to equip you with the skills and confidence to start growing your own herbs from seed. You will take home your planted seeds.
Tutor: Susie Hauxwell has been working within the horticulture industry for 25 years, including 15 years working in the Curatorial Team at RHS Rosemoor. She has more recently been Programme Manager for the Horticultural Apprenticeship programme at Bicton College, and is currently running her own horticultural consultancy business. Amongst her horticultural qualifications, Susie has extensive horticultural machinery tickets and the RHS General, Advanced and Practical Certificate in Horticulture and the Master of Horticulture (RHS) 15 years at RHS Rosemoor.
Location and arrival information: The workshop will be split between the Peter Buckley Learning Centre, and outside in the Garden. Please allow 15 minutes to park in the main visitor car park, enter the garden and get to the Learning Centre.
Catering: Tea / coffee and biscuits will be available in the classroom at the start of each session.
For this workshop you will need:
- Your booking reference number to show to the team at the Garden Entrance.
- A notebook and pencil to make notes.
- A camera to take photographs to support your learning.
- Clothing suitable for being indoors and outdoors, appropriate to weather on the day, and closed-toed shoes.
Skill Level: Upskiller – I have mastered the basics of gardening and would like to build my horticultural knowledge and skills.
