Gardener’s Cuttings
Pippa Greenwood at Edible Garden Show
Always dreamed of growing your own fruit and vegetables? Or just want to get better at it? A new event – The Edible Garden Show – will be staged at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, from 18th – 20th March, and promises to be a show which meets the demand for home- grown produce and healthy eating.
Celebrity gardener and best-selling author Pippa Greenwood, renowned for her infectious passion for plants and home-grown produce, will give daily talks in the show hall.
Tickets for the event are £11 with concessions for children, students and elderly visitors. For full details visit
www.theediblegardenshow.co.uk or call 0844 338 8001.
Cherry Tree Nursery plant sale
Spring is really on the way and it’s time to think about buying new plants to liven up your garden. If you buy them from Cherry Tree Nursery, Bournemouth, named last year as Wessex Charity of the Year, you’ll be helping a really good cause as well. The nursery, a horticultural charity offering therapy and rehabilitation to people with mental health problems, is holding its spring plant sale on Saturday 26th March, from 8am until 3pm. Most of the plants sold in 2 litre pots will be at reduced prices, so there’s a bargain to be found.
There will also be a wide range of stalls, live music, South American crafts, Mexican jewellery, a raffle and a tombola, home made cakes, books, CDs and DVDs for sale, with free tea and coffee.
The nursery produces over 100,000 high quality garden plants on the four and a half acre site, including perennials, shrubs, trees, climbers, grasses, bamboos, ferns and conifers, from the more common plants to the unusual.
Bedding, perennials and bulbs from the sister project, Chestnut Tree Nursery at Poole, are also sold. The nursery is open six days a week, so for more details phone 01202 593537 or visit the website www.
cherrytreenursery.org.uk
Cherry Tree Nursery, off New Road, Northbourne, Bournemouth BH10 7DA.
Orchard farm offers food events alongside local produce
These days we want to know exactly where our food has come from. We want to know that the animals have been reared humanely and non-intensively and the miles from food to table have been kept to a minimum. The consumer is more conscious of the route from farm to table. Orchard Park, just outside
Gillingham off the B3081 Shaftesbury Road, supplies customers with locally sourced products in their Farm Shop.
This year, to showcase the fine food on offer, Orchard Park are offering a variety of events from cooking demonstrations to tastings.
The Orchard Park Farm Shop stocks beef and lamb from neighbouring Lagan Farm. Ron and Sheila Clarke of Lagan Farm have been rearing prize-winning rare breeds of cattle and sheep for over twenty years and they are great supporters of traditional British breeds. These include one of the oldest breeds of cattle, the British White, the 200 year old Red Poll and one of the rarest breeds of cattle, the Irish Moiled. Their home-grown lamb comes from the Wiltshire Horn Sheep. The Farm Shop stocks pork, poultry and game, all sourced within Dorset. The team of Orchard Park butchers produce succulent sausages, burgers and faggots and delicious home made pies, pasties and sausage rolls, which are baked on site.
February will offer ‘Unsung Heroes’ – cooking with reasonably priced cuts of meat you may have never cooked with before, such as shin of beef, offal and lamb neck (17th February 2011). Followed in March by a cooking demonstration by the award- winning Head Chef, Callum Keir of Holbrook House. Callum will demonstrate how to produce a delicious three-course menu cooked from the finest locally sourced ingredients from the Orchard Park Farm Shop (24th March 2011). In April they are offering a bakery course for Easter (8th & 15th April 2011).
Call 01747 835544, email
farmshop@orchardpark.uk.net or visit
www.orchardpark.biz
Sherborne Turf provides the answers Established in 1972, Sherborne Turf has grown steadily to encompass all aspects of gardening, while maintaining its traditional values. The turf is grown in high quality farmland which forms part of the Trent Estate, using a unique blend of grasses that will knit together to form a firm base.
From the picturesque village of Trent, there’s a delivery service within a 50 mile radius of Sherborne.
They also supply a full range of ameliorants, all locally sourced. Their topsoil is screened to 10mm and stored under cover in the winter for delivery in bulk bags. Composts and mulches are also available from stock, and with a wide variety to choose from, they have something to cover every aspect of your garden.
Call 01935 850388. Office hours are 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings during busy periods.
Propagation day course
If you are interested in propagating, then the Dorset Hardy Plant Group with Jane Norris is running a propagation course on 13th April at 10 Ryan Close, Ferndown BH22 9TP from 1.30pm. There is a charge of £12 which will include goody bags of plants or cuttings to take home, home made cake plus tea and coffee. All aspects of propagating will be covered. On Wednesday 11th May there’s a an afternoon of ‘Making the Most of a Small Garden’, which will include limited vegetable growing, planting up pots, managing a small lawn, and going ‘up rather than along’. Call 01202 873176 or email
norris530@btinternet.com
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