Dublin City Council, North West Area are offering a FREE Sustainable Gardening Course for people living in the Finglas and Ballymun area.

This course runs on Sunday 3rd of July and Sunday 10th of July (you need to be able to attend both dates to sign up) . The course is given by Aoife Munn and covers everything you need to know to improve your area for biodiversity and grow chemical free. This course is particularly interesting for Tidy Towns groups, Allotment Holders, Green Schools Coordinators and those wishing to really reduce their impact on the planet.

Topics covered include reducing your waste, creating wildflower areas, growing vegetables, pollinator planting and much more. The course is interactive and you will also get the chance to make your own biodegradable pots and take cuttings. Notes will be emailed to participants after the sessions.

Sustainable Gardening Course

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Kilroy’s College – Dublin City South, Co. Dublin is running a Distance Learning Diploma Training Course in Gardening course

Gardening is one of the fastest growing leisure pastimes for many good, practical reasons as well as the sense of enjoyment of it. There are many sound economic and organic reasons for getting the most out of your garden. Vegetables and fruit s taste better when they come from your own garden. There are good reasons why this is not a myth. Fruit and vegetables sold in the Supermarkets are generally subject to maximum production techniques which concentrate more on yield per acre than on consistently good quality and flavour.

Course Contents

Unit 1:Introduction

Unit 2:Garden Tools / Garden Design

Unit 3:The Perfect Lawn

Unit 4:Decorative Shrubs and Trees

Unit 5:Ponds / Pools

Unit 6:The Rose

Unit 7:Vegetables & Herbs

This course will introduce you to the principles and practices of modern gardening. It will develop your skills and help you to create the garden that you always wanted. Our course will help you to enjoy the shear pleasure that gardening can bring to your leisure time. You will get closer to nature, learn to create the garden you always wanted and as a bonus you will start to taste your own produce in due course.