What you'll learn
Learn how to make your garden grow healthy, delicious and fresh vegetables with our gardening short courses in Sydney!
Gain the confidence to cultivate your own fresh produce in any available growing spaces inside and outside of your house, on your balcony, out in the street, and in your local community gardens.
In this hands-on workshop, your experienced tutor will focus on small-space, inner-city and urban gardening, as well as larger backyards and whole house areas.
You'll find out how to grow vegetables in pots, troughs, and containers - with the objective of achieving high-productivity outcomes in small spaces.
You'll go home with the skills and knowledge you need to create your very own edible garden at home, with delicious organic produce. With your new-found skills, you can create a sustainable food source with a diversity of plants that includes exotic vegetables, bush food, natives and flowers.
We practice what we preach in this workshop, so come on down to our vegetable garden area, practice growing vegetables, and see for yourself how it all works. We get our (gloved) hands dirty!
Learning outcomes
By the end of this Vegetable Gardening course, you should be able to:
- Be confident about growing your own herbs and vegetables.
- Assess the quality of your garden soil mix.
- Determine the selection of vegetables that will work in your space.
- Cultivate garden composts and garden soils.
- Select potting mixes for containers.
- Develop a nutrient-rich, well-structured garden profile.
- Diversify your fresh food sources.
- Successfully grow your own home veggie and herb patch.
Course content
What will be covered in this Vegetable Gardening course?
Practicals
- Hands-on experience in college community garden beds
- Your garden soil assessment
- Planting out seeds & seedlings
- Pots and containers - ground rules & pitfalls
Knowhow
- Start with a great base: What you need to know about garden composts, soils and mixes.
- Inspect your site: Work out where is best.
- Trust the process: Containers and pots are different to garden beds.
- Water or irrigation: Pick your climate option.
- Fertiliser: Just do it.
- Which veggies make sense: Grow what where!
- Unique edible alternatives: Exotic vegetables, herbs, edible flowers & dwarf fruit trees
- Seeds or seedlings: getting seasonal stuff right
- Soak it in: With a rainforest of gardening hints and tips.
Please note - this course does not contain horticultural advice on:
- What plants grow well, where
- Pest or disease identification
- Pest or disease management
- Use of chemical treatment for plants.
For information in these areas, please consult your local garden centre for advice.
Intended audience
Who is this Vegetable Gardening course for?
This course is for people with or without plant knowledge, with or without big enough garden spaces, or with or without green thumbs, or people with problem areas that need fixing up, and they don’t know where to start, or how to do it, and want some help with all that.
Course venue
2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd on the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)
Course materials
What to bring to class
- Gardening gloves (tight fit is better for gardening work)
- A face mask (to protect against potting mix/garden soil bacteria like Legionella)
- Sharp secateurs / garden snips/scissors or kitchen scissors
- Small hand spade tool
- Small bag to carry small pots
- Wet weather gear / sun hat if required
Course testimonials
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Caite said: Loved the course. I learned a lot of practical vegetable gardening techniques and filled in gaps in my knowledge.
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Susan said: A knowledgeable trainer.
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Anna said: Gisele was very knowledgeable and non-judgemental, which meant you didn't feel silly asking questions! It was a great class and I would definitely recommend it to friends.
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Mel said: Giselle is fantastic, her knowledge and patience are incredible. We enjoyed her Indoor Plant class so we went to this one as well. I’d love to see her run more classes.
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Claudia said: She’s very knowledgeable and helped us understand with ease lots of concepts in a short time and also put them into practice ! We even have a competition and homework!!! Can't wait to see my first veggies be ready for spring/ summer :)
Course tutors
Richard Lynch
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