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Learn about sowing & planting

How to set out your garden for healthy crop rotation. Planting green manure and techniques to keep down the weeds.

Learn about soil

Find out how to keep your soil productive. How to make compost and natural fertilizers. Hoeing techniques to keep down the weeds and reduce watering.

Tomato plants

You would have to sow your seeds quite early from January to March.

If you are not equipped, but I will show you how to use a warming cable and build a propagator, you might have to buy them.

It would be much better if you could get plants that alredy have flowers, as those will ripe much sooner than the smaller one.

Intensive introductory horticultural course

 

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.

At the end of the course you will have the skill and knowledge to create your own kitchen garden.I will give you a hand out .

         

 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.

You can ring me personally on

087 1258002

or

e-mail  

tanguy@dunmorecountryschool.ie

 

February

Saturday 25th 2012(booked)

March

Saturday the 10th 2012

Sunday the  11th 2012 (booked)

Saturday the 24th 2012

April

Saturday the 6th 2012

Saturday the 21th 2012

May

Saturday the 12th

June

Saturday the 9th

 

You can organise your own group (at least four).

Dear Tanguy

 Just to let you know that I really enjoyed the introductory course on Saturday and it was good to know that my compost heap and veg plots are in the right places! The lunch was wonderful as well. I shall definitely be booking up some of the other courses you have to offer. I do have a question though, please could you let me know  the names of the two squashes – one we had for lunch and the small black one you showed us that would be brilliant. Kind Regards 

Bridgette Compton(2/11/2011)

 

Chers Isabelle et Tanguy,   Juste un petit mot pour vous remercier pour ce stage magnifique. Votre jardin est vraiment un bout de paradis sur la terre et malgré la pluie déluvienne, je suis rentrée avec le soleil dans mon coeur!   Votre accueil était super et le repas excellent.  Dès que vous avez un peu de temps libre, je vous inviterai ici.  Entretemps j'ai du travail à faire dans mon jardin!   Merci encore, bon weekend et bonne continuation avec tout.   Pippa

1st october 2011

Hi Tanguy and Isabelle, thanks for a lovely day, great gardening tips and fab food!!

Bernice Molloy 1st October 2011

Dear Tanguy and Isabelle Thank you both so much for a really brilliant and inspiring day. I haven't stopped talking about it since saturday and really picked up a lot of brilliant ideas, even for my little plot! Don't be surprised to see me again sometime, but this time I will bring Gary as I know he would love your courses Kind regards Maeve

08/09/2011

Gardening and Cookery courses.
I started renovating our garden this year (2011) and needed to learn how to do things the right way.
I've now done 3 courses with Tanguy and Isabelle at Dunmore Country School and the knowledge gained has been of huge benefit to me.
My wife and her friends have done one of the cookery courses and really enjoyed it.
Both Tanguy and Isabelle are very welcoming and generous with their knowledge and time.
... We would highly recommend a visit to Dunmore, it's fantastic value.
A little it of France under an Irish sky.
Tony and Adrienne Meagher.