Grow North Dates

OCTOBER
Your harvesting will still be going well, though it may have slowed. It is now time to put plans for winter into practice, and sow for overwintering, and feed your soil.

• Looking at selected overwinter crops
• green manure and feeding the soil

16th - Fortrose 10 – 4 core tutor – “Preparing for winter”
17th Netherton 10 – 4 core tutor – “Preparing for winter”
23rd Loch na Mhoid 10 – 4 core tutor – “Preparing for winter”

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NOVEMBER
This month's specialist topic will be fruit. Explore the range of fruit available and learn about the factors which influence fruit selection, such as root stocks, flowering groups and compatibility. Practice planting bare rooted fruit trees and shrubs and learn how to care for them during establishment. Edible hedgerow species will also be covered.

The core session will consider preparing for winter. Your harvesting will still be going well, though it may have slowed. It is now time to put plans for winter into practice, and sow for overwintering, and feed your soil.
• Looking at selected overwinter crops
• green manure and feeding the soil
• sowing & planting out overwinter crops e.g. broad beans, garlic, winter salads etc
• sowing green manure
• Practical tasks in training garden – e.g. pruning, harvesting – depending on site & weather.

20th - Fortrose 10:00 - 3:30; Visiting tutor: Les Bates – “Fruit”; core tutor – “Winter tasks”
21st - Netherton 10:00 – 3:30; Visiting tutor: Les Bates – “Fruit”; core tutor – “Winter tasks”
27th - Loch Na Mhoid 10:00 - 3:30; Visiting tutor: Les Bates – “Fruit”; core tutor – “Winter tasks”

DECEMBER
This will be a shorter session, continuing the winter tasks such as sowing overwinter crops and green manure, pruning and harvesting. An evening session to allow all participants to come together again for a guest lecture will also part of this month's training, so please get in touch with suggestions, such as edible flowers, growing in polytunnels & greenhouses.

5th - Fortrose 12:30 - 3:30 Core tutor - core tutor – “Winter tasks and the coming spring”
11th - Loch Na Mhoid 12:30 - 3:30; core tutor – “Winter tasks and the coming spring”
12th - Netherton 12:30 - 3:30; core tutor – “Winter tasks and the coming spring”

Date?? - evening guest speaker - suggestions from participants please!

If you would like further information about any aspect of GROW NORTH please contact Sheila grownorth@transitionblackisle.org