Karen Hooper, Loughborough Farm volunteer, reports about the Capital Growth Food Growing training that several farm volunteers attended.
We are mainly beginners but thanks to Loughborough Farm we hope to supply the community with some tasty autumn and winter veg this year.
The farm’s Project Co-ordinator Emily Myers encouraged Charlotte, Lincoln and myself to attend Capital Growth’s Food Growing Training on Growing Autumn and Winter Vegetables recently in their beautiful Regent’s Park allotment.
The allotment at Regent’s Park
Workshop leader Paul Richens brought the subject alive taking us back to the basics of understanding the seasons – from leaf fall to leaf growth, our global position and London’s temperature – check out www.nw3weather.co.uk if you want to know when the rain’s coming.
We also had fun getting confused learning how to use an annual sun track. Charlotte got to grips well with this exercise – and how important that could be to sowing our seeds. We also got a chance to see a wormery in action and learn something about saving seeds.
It was heartening to know we could have baby leeks and turnips sprouting up in the next few months and that we can sow all sorts of oriental salad leaves up to November to have tasty treats throughout the winter. We were pleased to note we are already growing winter purslane, which has become a bit of a trendy crop.
“The amount of veg you can plant in the winter really surprised me,” says Charlotte. “It was a great way to learn about winter veg growing and protection with lots of tips to take away. We are now looking forward to putting them into practice in the farm.”
Lincoln at the allotment at Regent’s Park
The allotment at Regent’s Park
Loughborough Farm volunteers learn about autumn and winter veg
Karen Hooper, Loughborough Farm volunteer, reports about the Capital Growth Food Growing training that several farm volunteers attended.
We are mainly beginners but thanks to Loughborough Farm we hope to supply the community with some tasty autumn and winter veg this year.
The farm’s Project Co-ordinator Emily Myers encouraged Charlotte, Lincoln and myself to attend Capital Growth’s Food Growing Training on Growing Autumn and Winter Vegetables recently in their beautiful Regent’s Park allotment.
The allotment at Regent’s Park
Workshop leader Paul Richens brought the subject alive taking us back to the basics of understanding the seasons – from leaf fall to leaf growth, our global position and London’s temperature – check out www.nw3weather.co.uk if you want to know when the rain’s coming.
We also had fun getting confused learning how to use an annual sun track. Charlotte got to grips well with this exercise – and how important that could be to sowing our seeds. We also got a chance to see a wormery in action and learn something about saving seeds.
It was heartening to know we could have baby leeks and turnips sprouting up in the next few months and that we can sow all sorts of oriental salad leaves up to November to have tasty treats throughout the winter. We were pleased to note we are already growing winter purslane, which has become a bit of a trendy crop.
“The amount of veg you can plant in the winter really surprised me,” says Charlotte. “It was a great way to learn about winter veg growing and protection with lots of tips to take away. We are now looking forward to putting them into practice in the farm.”
Lincoln at the allotment at Regent’s Park
The allotment at Regent’s Park