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What’s on...
Please find below a list of some meetings and event’s scheduled from late March to early July at time of writing during might still change due to COVID, but hopefully not now. As always, please check before attending any event.
Please take a look at the NVS website “Events” section for up-to-date and additional information, thank you. You will also find, links within the events to some of the larger host event web pages too.
Date
Local to
Type
Description
Speaker
Location
Time
19th Welsh Mar Branch
9th Midlands Apr Branch
12th Hants DA Apr
13th Surrey DA Apr
20th East
Apr Derbyshire
DA
Meeting
Meeting
Talk
Talk
Talk
Committee Meeting & Annual General Meeting
Committee Meeting
Talk - Tomatoes
A talk on Growing using the Autopot System
Talk on growing better vegetables
N/A
N/A
David Thornton
Jason Ralph- Smith from Autopots
David Thornton
The Lamb and Flag, North Street, Rhayader LD6 5BU
The Scout Hut, Broadwaters Kidderminster, Worcs. DY10 2RY
Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Road, Sherfield English, Romsey, SO51 6LF.
Redhill Methodist Church, Gloucester Road, Redhill, RH1 1BP
Pleasley Miners Welfare, Chesterfield Road, Pleasley, Mansfield, NG19 7PD
11.00am (Committee) 2.00pm (AGM)
12.00 noon
7.30pm
8.00pm
7.30pm for a 8.00pm start
30th Mar
North Yorkshire
& South Durham DA
Event
The Potato Challenge begins - A potato and grow sack will be given out at the meeting for you to grow on and bring back the big weigh in at
the August 31st
N/A
The Function Room of the Billingham Constitutional Club, 31, Wolviston Road, Billingham TS23 2RR
7.00pm for a 7.30pm start
10th Apr
Essex DA
Talk
Talk - ’A Year on the Plot’
Mick Poultney
Main Hall, Hatfield Peverel Village Hall, CM3 2HP
2.00pm
12th Apr
West Yorkshire DA
Talk
50 years of breeding Leeks
John Soulsby
Paxton Horticultural Society Halls, 186, Kirkstall Lane, Leeds LS5 2AB
8.00pm
13th Apr
Kent DA
Talk
Talk on No-Dig Market Gardening - Principles, Techniques and Getting Started.
Harry James
Bridge Village Hall High Street, Bridge, Canterbury, Kent CT4 5JZ
7.30pm for 8.00pm start
27th Apr
North Yorkshire
& South Durham DA
Talk
Talk - 50 years in Horticulture
John Smiles
The Function Room of the Billingham Constitutional Club 31, Wolviston Road, Billingham TS23 2RR
7.00pm for a 7.30pm start
29th Apr – 1st May
Hants DA
Event
BBC Gardeners World Live Spring Fair – Hants DA will have a stand at the show and an Allotment display.
N/A
Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire, United Kingdom, SO42 7ZN
9.30am to 6.00pm each day
5th May
Midlands Branch
Event
Malvern Spring Festival
N/A
Three Counties Showground, Malvern
8th Essex DA May
11th Kent DA May
Talk
Talk
Talk – Grow your Onions
A talk entitled ‘Starting Over - Leaving one garden for a new one’
John & Coral Bebbington
Vanessa Jones
Main Hall, Hatfield Peverel Village Hall, CM3 2HP
Bridge Village Hall High Street, Bridge, Canterbury, Kent CT4 5JZ
2.00pm
7.30pm for 8.00pm start
10th May
West Yorkshire DA
Talk
Talk on Growing Shallots
Jim Robinson
Paxton Horticultural Society Halls, 186, Kirkstall Lane, Leeds LS5 2AB
8.00pm
11th May
Surrey DA
Talk
A talk – growing using a hotbed system
Tom Maskell
The Main Hall, East Horsley Village Hall, Kingston Avenue, East Horsley, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT24 6QT
8.00pm
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