Courses
Intensive horticultural course (€100)
What is covered during the day
- Planning and design of your garden and polytunnel.
- Soil, composition, how to improve it.
- composting and how to use the compost.
- Calender of sowing & companion planting.
- Spacing vegetables.
- Weeds and their uses.
- Vegetable varieties, sowing and planting
- Fruit trees, fruit bushes and roses pruning explained.
- Tools, mulching, hoeing.
- Vegetable garden, kitchen garden, pleasure garden.
This course is a must if you want to understand in just one day the essence of traditional gardening.
You will be well equipped to follow the seasonal courses.
The cost of this course is 100 euro per person.
It is a full day course. It starts at 9h30 and finishes at 16h30.
Small groups up to 7
You will get tea/coffee on arrival, tea break around 11am and lunch at 1pm.
At the end of the course you will be equipped to start your own garden and a full range of follow up courses will be available to you.
Start you garden from scratch (€50)
It is a half day course. It starts at 10h and finishes at 13h.
What is covered during the day
- how to organize it and optimize the space.
- Start a bed from grass (different techniques explained).
- How to follow a plan (time frame, first things to do, etc.)
- fruit trees, shrubs and other plants.
- Mix the vegetable with the flowers.
Polytunnel course
(€50)
It is a half day course. It starts at 10h and finishes at 13h.
What is covered during the day
- Plant production (propagator, plugs, pots, seedling and potting compost).
- Herb drying (culinary and medicinal).
- Inter cropping, companion planting, self seeding.
- Winter storage (leeks, escarole).
- Mimic a dry summer and use of comfrey fermented extract with compost.
- Use of Water.
- Grow the flowers.
Spring course
(€50)It is a half day course. It starts at 10h and finishes at 13h.
What is covered during the day
- Planning your garden.
- Start your garden from scratch.
- Element of design with nature.
- Compost: how to make it and use it.
- Rotation.
- Manage your polydome or green house.
- Any questions will be answered.
Summer course
(€50)
It is a half day course. It starts at 10h and finishes at 13h.
What is covered during the day
- Tomato and chili pepper pruning.
- Plant extract and different spray.
- Planting summer crops.
- Potato blight everything explained.
- Spacing vegetables.
- Hoeing and watering, mulching.
- Manage your polytunnel.
- Rose care.
Autumn course
(€50)It is a half day course. It starts at 10h and finishes at 13h.
What is covered during the day:
- Planning the next year.
- Start your garden from scratch.
- Element of design with nature.
- Compost: how to make it and use it.
- Rotation.
- Manage your polydome or green house.
- Rose care.
- Be ready for next year.
- Any questions will be answered.
Warre bee-keeping course (€90)
The cost of this course is 80euro per person.
It is a full day course. It starts at 10h and finishes at 15h.
What is covered during the day:
Ø Basics of a bee nest
Ø Construction (Warre system and Delon
system, Japanese system)
Ø How to preserve the hive?
Ø Starting from scratch (Amm, location,
where to buy?)
Ø Management
Ø Managing the increase. (split, shook swarm,
varroa, winter store, requeening)
Ø Tools
Ø Bait hives (use)
Ø Driving bees with sound and smoke
Ø Honey harvest (gravity, press,
melting of the pressed cake)
Ø Wax (melting)
Ø Propolis (varnish for the hive)
Ø Pollen (leave it to the bees)
Ø Mead and honey cake from the melting
of pressed cake
