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Maintaining a Healthy Garden – Pests, Diseases, Crop Protection
Join this hands-on workshop to learn all about protecting your food crops from pests and diseases, so you can enjoy a healthy harvest!
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Whitlam Display Village, 3 Klaus Moje Street
Klaus Moje Street Molonglo Valley, ACT 2611 AustraliaRefund Policy
About this event
There are few things more disheartening than watching your veggie garden fall victim to pests or diseases and seeing your beautiful plants disappear before your eyes.
Luckily, there’s ways to protect your precious crops from pests and diseases, including many organic ways which avoid excess chemicals and keep your helpful garden critters safe!
Join us for Maintaining a Healthy Garden – Pests, Diseases, Crop Protection – the fifth workshop in our ‘Growing Food Through the Seasons’ series hosted by Fiona from Ainslie Urban Farm in collaboration with the Suburban Land Agency.
In this two-hour session, Fiona will introduce you to the basics of plant health, so you can learn how to grow healthy and resilient plants. You’ll also learn organic ways to manage any pests and diseases that do arise.
You’ll be learning theory about topics including:
- The Plant Health Pyramid, which explains the root causes of pests and diseases
- How to identify pests and diseases
- Managing pests and diseases organically
- Protecting crops from predators
You’ll get your hands dirty too, with these practical elements:
- We’ll do some gentle weeding in garden beds, where you can learn the best tools and tricks to remove weeds with ease
- We’ll plant some legumes that you can eat and use as a green manure crop to fix nitrogen in your soil
What to Bring: Please bring a notebook to take notes, your gardening gloves, a hat, a rain jacket, sunscreen, a water bottle, and wear clothes and shoes you are happy to do some (light) gardening in!
Spaces: There are 25 places available in each workshop.
Where to Meet: Meet at the SLA Sales Suite at the Innovation Precinct at the SLA's Display Village in Whitlam.
Weather: We’ll cover our theory component indoors. Please bring a rain jacket and wear clothes and shoes suitable for outdoors, but we will cancel the outdoor component in the event of severe rain or storms.
If the cost of this workshop may limit your ability to attend, please contact the SLA Sustainability Team on SLA.SRC@act.gov.au to discuss options.
Growing Food Through the Seasons Workshop Series
This workshop is part of our year-long ‘Growing Food Through the Seasons’ series hosted by Fiona from Ainslie Urban Farm and brought to you by the Suburban Land Agency (SLA).
Growing Food Through the Seasons workshops will be held at the Innovation Precinct at the SLA’s Display Village in Whitlam across 2024, aiming to give you year-long learning opportunities for growing delicious food at home. Across the year there will be opportunities to learn theory and hands on techniques about planting calendars, how to plan your food garden to be most productive, how to maintain a healthy garden and how to keep a well-functioning compost.
Join us for one of the workshops, or come along to all ten across the span of the year and be fully prepared for planning your productive food garden!
For further information about the workshops and to register your interest in the full program, please contact the SLA Sustainability Team on SLA.SRC@act.gov.au
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You'll do some gardening activities like preparing a garden bed (as well as learning theory) so bring your gardening gloves and wear appropriate clothes and shoes.
Yes. We're offering workshops on growing food almost every month over the next year as part of our 'Growing Food Through the Seasons' workshop series. Contact the SLA Sustainability Team on SLA.SRC@act.gov.au for more information about registering your interest for the program.
Please bring a rain jacket and wear clothes and shoes suitable for outdoors, but we will cancel the outdoor component in the event of severe rain or storms.