Do you want to protect the environment and have better health?
Do you want to create a child friendly garden at home. A place where children can discover, experiment and learn about science in their own backyards?
Join award winning sustainable gardener Dee Pignéguy in her Auckland
garden and find out how.
Do you want to create a child friendly garden at home. A place where children can discover, experiment and learn about science in their own backyards?
Join award winning sustainable gardener Dee Pignéguy in her Auckland
garden and find out how.
A practical workshop with gardening teacher Dee Pignéguy to inspire and up-skill potential home gardeners. Each workshop is based on garden jobs and planting related to the season.
Keen to get a lush productive home garden going but unsure how to start?
Got your garden started but not sure how to keep things going?
Seasonal gardening courses 2010, with a down-to-earth gardening expert.
Courses will cover:
Courses suitable for Teachers in charge of developing school gardens.
Keen to get a lush productive home garden going but unsure how to start?
Got your garden started but not sure how to keep things going?
Seasonal gardening courses 2010, with a down-to-earth gardening expert.
Courses will cover:
- What to plant in Spring for fresh organic produce
- Working on the backyard Spring garden
- Planting for summer
- How to keep your garden producing through the seasons
- What should I plant now
- Composting, Worm Farming, Liquid Manures, Organic Sprays
- Seed sowing, transplanting, using cloches and watering
- How to use all those vegetables
- Insects in the garden. The Beneficial Insect Garden. Growing Herbs
- Making Tussie Mussies (fun flower posies)
Courses suitable for Teachers in charge of developing school gardens.
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2010 Courses
Sat October 16th Sat November 13th Very limited places available, bookings essential. Courses are held at Dee's Place, in Auckland, New Zealand. Cost: $40 including morning tea and fresh garden salad for lunch. Dee's books available for purchase: Gardening for Planet Earth $25 and Feed Me Right $25. |
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Organic Gardening Course feedback from one participant
How to squeeze more food plants into your existing garden
Gardening enthusiast Dee Pignéguy provides consulting and gardening services.
With Dee's diverse experience in organic gardening she can quickly look at your space and make a plan for turning it into the best edible landscape it can be. Dee Can help you plan a gardening environment to meet your dining tastes, medicinal requirements.
Schools will find Dee's Consulting Service especially valuable.
Garden consulting is $30 an hour
Gardening enthusiast Dee Pignéguy provides consulting and gardening services.
With Dee's diverse experience in organic gardening she can quickly look at your space and make a plan for turning it into the best edible landscape it can be. Dee Can help you plan a gardening environment to meet your dining tastes, medicinal requirements.
Schools will find Dee's Consulting Service especially valuable.
Garden consulting is $30 an hour
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Children all over the world are gardening at school. |
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No food is more local than that which you grow in your own backyard. |
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Develop small scale intensive systems. |
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Moderate extreme temperatures and maintain soil moisture by using shade cloth. |
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Organic gardening evolved from centuries of careful observation and common sense. |
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Pollination and saving our own seed was until recently the basis of our food production. |
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Expand your food choices, using food to stay well. It is cheaper, safer and more effective than drugs or surgery. |
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