YEAR-ROUND FRUIT AND VEGES COURSE

A one-day course comprising theory and practical sessions to protect your garden with edible/non-edible shelter & espaliers, and planning for year-round fruit, vegetables, microgreens and herbs for your garden.

Espalier Fruit Trees

• Fruit tree training systems for pip fruit - espalier and candelabra

• Creating an espaliered fence and finishing off an espalier

• Spires, columns, and cordons, arches, stepovers and fruit fans

• Practical - how to erect an espalier structure or how to prune espalier trees/bushes/vines

Herb Spiral

• How to design a herb spiral and what scale to use

• Ingredients, orientation and positioning

• Laying, filling, planting and herb layout

• Practical – basic designing and laying out a herb spiral with bricks

Shelter and Fedges

• Solid fences and walls versus windbreak netting

• How a windbreak works, designing a windbreak - spacing and protection

• Native shelter trees and spacing of trees, fedges (food hedges)

• Practical – planning out a shelterbelt from scratch

Growing Food All Year Round (succession planting)

• Brassicas, beans and peas, rootcrops and alliums

• Cut and come again greens

• Direct sow and sowing in containers

• Non succession continual cropping

• Practical – direct sowing and transplanting of crops with tips and tricks

Microgreens

• What are microgreens - what varieties grow best at different times of the year

• Equipment - materials and upcycling containers

• Process and timing of crops and harvesting

• Practical – growing microgreens and tasting

Places are limited to 12 - includes morning & afternoon tea. Bring something for a shared lunch.

• Cost - $100 per person

• Venue – Korito Gardens, 28a Trafalgar Street, Westown, New Plymouth

• Date – 6 September 2025

• Times – 9.00am – 5pm

• Contact – Email or txt - derinatur@hotmail.com or 0211252035

• Website – www.korito.co.nz