Dates For Your Diaries

[sewer rat]

1st April - Guide to Organic Vegetable Growing - Aimed at new gardeners this day course provides the basics on creating a productive veg plot. Contact - Garden Organic, Ryton, Coventry. Members £20, non-members £27. For details see www.gardenorganic.org.uk.

8th April - Beginners Guide to Growing Herbs - Practical advice on growing traditional and unusual herbs in conjunction with the RHS. Contact -Green Garden Herbs, 13 West Bank, Carlton, North Yorks. RHS members £7.95, non-members £9.95 (booking is essential). For details see website at www.greengardenherbs.co.uk

Info from this months GW mag

Cheers
Rat

[Jaxom]

RHS Spring Flower Show, Cardiff 15-17 April Bute Park, Cardiff
Bookings 08700 66 77 99.
Not sure how much entrance will be as I intend to ring and book tomorrow.
Jax

Tickets for non-RHS members are £9 each from ticket line, with 50p charge for posting them to me. I am sure when I get the tickets I will find that they have put a nice mark up on them for themselves. The face value will more than likely say £7.

[Lesley Jay]

RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, Cheshire is on from 19th July to 23rd July.

[nick the grief]

I could advertise our Chrysath shows, but I guess you won't all want to come to Nuneaton for a couple of hours in Semptember & November

Thanks for the Ryton Jobb Rat, might just go.

[sewer rat]

No problemo nick - didn't know where it was except that it at the very least 350 miles from me - as are most of these large shows and it would appear, most of these type of courses -
But I live in Scotland - in the Highlands - and I can drink staight from the tap, shoot, grow or catch my dinner all within 10 minutes of my house - and Scottish beer is, in my own humble opinion, miles better than the warm flat English stuff, - so I'll suffer - but maybe not in silence!!
Rat

[Jaxom]

Tickets for non-RHS members are £9 each from ticket line, with 50p charge for posting them to me. I am sure when I get the tickets I will find that they have put a nice mark up on them for themselves. The face value will more than likely say £7.

Jax Full marks for Ticketline. Face value of ticket £9 and no booking fee or mark up. RHS members price £8. All tickets on the day £10.

[nick the grief]

Ryton's about 20 mins from me as the cow flies (see our beer is good) and they ahve some good courses but usually midweek wich is a pain.

The National Veg society held an all day course recently (£20 i think) but it was in London!!! It would be much better if they held it some where central as it would cost me another £30 to get to London

[andrewo]

They need to do more regional things, especially in cities.

[nick the grief]

I agree with that Andrew.

It alwasy amazes me that National societies bleat about falling mebership and alway do things about as far away from everyone as possible.

The NVS will do a roadshow to any society thats interested. It covers all things about growing veg (not just for showing). Thats how I came to join. If anyones interested in having one for their lottie site or gardening club PM me and I'll give you the address of the guy to contact.

[Pete]

They need to do more regional things.

Aye! and further North too

[nick the grief]

You can't grow anything in the tundra & permafrost of Dundee can you Pete, apart from Oranges for your Marmalade

[plot 11 pam]

the rhs malvern spring show is on from 11th may to 14th. tickets available now from web site just put in rhs malvern flower show on google.

[Jaxom]

RHS Spring Flower Show, this coming weekend in Cardiff. I am just wondering if there may be a small corner for vegetable growers there? Now that would be nice.
Chelsea is known as "The" flower show but Medwyn Williams and other veg growers always have a good display. You just don't always get to see the items to interest vegetable growers on the TV.
Out of interest is anyone else going? I will be going on Monday.
I will try to report back on all that I see.
Jax

[smallblueplanet]

Take a camera?

[Jaxom]

Will do, then I can post some photos now I know how
Jax