Spring Workshops

Join the Northcote Library Food Gardeners for community gardening workshops on Sunday 8th September.  The workshops will take place during our usual monthly community gardening day and we invite you to join us for all or part of the day.

Sunday 8th September in the NLFG

10 - 11am          
Welcome, induction for visitors and new gardeners, gardening tasks for day set out

11-12.30pm       
Workshop 1 - Spring Planting using Permaculture Principles 

Presenter - Seila Hierk

This is a hands-on workshop where Seila will take participants through his Spring planting guide, preparing garden beds for planting, companion planting, garden bed design for optimum yields and garden maintenance for Spring.

12.30-1.30pm       
Shared lunch and NLFG gardeners' meeting

1.30 - 3pm       
Workshop 2 - Berries and Vines in the Forest Garden 

Presenter - Angelo Eliades

The NLFG features a wide variety of berry and vine plants and Angelo will show us how these plants contribute to a food forest design, which varieties to plant, as well as care and maintenance of plants for maximum fruit production.

3 - 4pm       Afternoon tea and more gardening work!   

RSVP via email preferable for members (free), and ESSENTIAL for Non-members (by donation):   northcotelibraryfoodgarden@gmail.com

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Perennial Plants Workshop - August 2013

The NLFG members and visitors enjoyed learning about the benefits and care of perennial plant varieties from Raf (formerly of Cultivating Community and Merristem nursery) on our August community gardening day.

Raf's perennial plant guide can be found here

Maintaining the perennial plants in the NLFG

Learning about perennial varieties

The pepino is an edible perennial that is doing well in the NLFG