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Dug some leeks and picked some sprouts (best season ever) gave away some cabbage sprouts and leeks to some keen newbies. Did some rough digging, to get couch out.. Put all the spuds to chit. Garlic and Broad Beans through but no sign of any PSB yet Womble!! :)
Spent the day at my RHS course at Capel Manor College. The "practical" on this pleasantly sunny afternoon involved preparing a seed bed, marking it out with sand and sowing "hardy Annuals", then doing similar with sowing a lawn. Not only is it the wrong time of year to do this; the ground was sodden so we could have damaged the soil and the "hardy annuals" were old grass seeds. Last week we watched a tutor prune shrub roses at the wrong time of year (rather badly)! It's all because the course is geared towards what's in the exam, not what makes sense in horticultural terms. Ridiculous!
Quote from: hopalong on January 26, 2009, 17:42:45Spent the day at my RHS course at Capel Manor College. The "practical" on this pleasantly sunny afternoon involved preparing a seed bed, marking it out with sand and sowing "hardy Annuals", then doing similar with sowing a lawn. Not only is it the wrong time of year to do this; the ground was sodden so we could have damaged the soil and the "hardy annuals" were old grass seeds. Last week we watched a tutor prune shrub roses at the wrong time of year (rather badly)! It's all because the course is geared towards what's in the exam, not what makes sense in horticultural terms. Ridiculous!what level are you on? (rhs that is) the gardening year and the academic one do not 'line up' naturally, do they?? Tony, (mature hortic student) ;)
I think all colleges have this problem with timing of horticultural operations vs timing of exams! I think it's even worse if you are taking evening classes ;D ;D ;D