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Tuesday 6.30 to 9.30pm for 7 weeks starting Tuesday 30 April This course is aimed at beginner gardeners who wish to gain gardening skills and knowledge. The focus will be on vegetable growing, but much of the course content will …

As the hungry gap starts, we are relying on crops that grow over-winter and under glass. This week we have spring garlic from Organiclea’s Hawkwood Nursery in Chingford. Picked early, spring garlic – or ‘scapes’ – looks a lot like …

Friday is one the key volunteer team days at Organiclea’s Hawkwood growing site.  With 500 asparagus crowns to get into compost, over a dozen workers spent the day making asparagus potting-on mix, the recipe being green waste compost, woodchip and …