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Soil-Saturday at Gressenhall

Soil-Saturday at Gressenhall

Norfolk Master Gardeners spring in-service training was held last Saturday at Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse.  Garden Organic’s Agronomist, Anton Rosenfeld, engaged a packed room of volunteers, keeping them enthralled with the aid of a couple of sponges, some water and a few jars of soil. After coffee,  all trooped outside to investigate a specially prepared [...]

Norfolk households celebrate their growing sucessess

Norfolk households celebrate their growing sucessess

The drizzle didn’t stop Master Gardeners and their mentored households from turning up at Gressenhall on Sunday to celebrate their new food-growing achievements.   What a wonderful day! Master Gardener volunteers were answering questions of all sorts about food-growing. “When can I move my runner bean plants outside, they’re taking over the windowsill?” “What’s the best [...]

June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

Reserve your place at the National Masters Conference 2012 at Ryton Gardens. We’re inviting volunteers from across the country to share top-tips for supporting communities to grow their own food and make lovely compost. View the Masters Conference flyer (links opens PDF) Read about the National Masters Conference 2011 NEW for Norfolk Master Gardeners Please [...]

May: grow your own tips

May: grow your own tips

Crops are confused this month. We’ve had a mild winter, sunny March, and wet April so far. But May is the time for catching up with sowing seeds and planting out your favourite fruit and veg. Remember there’s still time to prepare quick growing harvest for your ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’ on the 3rd June 2012. [...]

Master Gardener deliver “Get Growing” workshop at Swaffham

Master Gardener deliver “Get Growing” workshop at Swaffham

The first “Get Growing” workshop was delivered by Master Gardeners Steve, Paul and Katy at Tumbler Hill Allotments, Swaffham on Saturday, 14 April.   Over 10 people turned up, some novice growers and others with more experience, but all looking to pick up some practical, seasonal growing tips. Steve began the morning with getting back to [...]

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Watering top tips

Watering top tipsAlthough, looking out the window this morning, one might be forgiven for thinking that our tender vegetables might be more at risk from drowing than drought, it is worth remembering our hot dry summer last year. Here are a couple of top watering tips: 1. Always water your pea drill with a fine rose before [...]

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Companion Planting

Events

May 26th: Schools Master Gardener training

May 26th: Schools Master Gardener trainingDue to popular demand, we’re delighted to invite Norfolk Master Gardeners to another specialist training day to help people grow in schools. From every group of Master Gardeners, several volunteers want to help pupils, parents, teachers, and the wider community grow their own food in school and at home. This is great! So we’ve invited [...]

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

Jun 13th: Open day at The Patch

News

The Leaderless Revolution

The Leaderless RevolutionProfessor Timothy O’Riordan, OBE, FBA and Trustee of The Soil Association spoke of the need for a Leaderless Revolution in our approach to dealing with the current food sustinability crisis. “The food system cannot be resolved on a global scale. We need local reliance. It is not something that is ‘nice to have’. It is [...]

Norfolk households celebrate their growing sucessess

Master Gardener deliver “Get Growing” workshop at Swaffham

Case Studies

When can my beans go outside?

When can my beans go outside?We have had a question from a home-food grower about beans. She asks “when will it be safe to put dwarf Italian beans out on my allotment? The frosts seem to be over now and my beans are raring to go!” Well, they may be safe now, but if could wait until the end of [...]

Soil-Saturday at Gressenhall

Planting fruit trees at The Patch

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