NEW VENUE: Dunedin Lawn Bowls Stadium. 38 Tahuna Road, Tainui.
The Dunedin Vegetable Growers Club is a Community Organisation / Club open to anyone interested in vegetable gardening and growing their own fresh produce on any scale. Monthly meetings are now held at the Dunedin Lawn Bowls Stadium, 38 Tahuna Road Tainui, on the first Wednesday of each month from August to May each year.
Membership each calendar year is: $15 Due now
Bank account number: 03 0905 0515906 00, enter your name as reference
Club membership and attendance to monthly meetings offer:
- A wealth of invaluable knowledge of all things vegetable and fruit growing related.
- Monthly newsletter.
- Guest and club speakers on a range of different horticultural topics.
- Plant / seedlings / materials / produce selling table.
- Monthly competitions with pretty top notch prizes! For example; best tomato, salad bowl, herb bunch, etc.
- ‘What to plant now’ and Q & A.
- Well stocked library of all things horticultural related including magazines.
- Garden open days / visits.
- Opportunity to network & socialize among other gardening gurus.
- Evening supper.
See details below for monthly meetings. Info updated as and when available 🙂
THE NEXT GARDEN CLUB MEETING DATE: Wednesday 1st May 2024
TIME: 7 pm
PLACE: Dunedin Lawn Bowls Stadium. 38 Tahuna Road, Tainui.
PARKING: There is parking on-site
Meeting agenda
Vegetable of the Month Competition: 3 Potatoes
Q & A: Don
Club Talk:
First Club Talk: Guy Houston and Alan Savell – Making Apple Cider
Second Club Talk: Marion and Jo Thomas – Preparing Gardens for Winter
Guest speaker:
Garden visit:
Dehydrating fruit, and herbs for teas. By Sue
NZ Dirt Doctor video on planting potatoes
Otepoti Urban Organics are up and running with a website
Sue has compiled this list of perennials and easily self-seeding annuals – Perennials list
Hugelkultur are no-dig raised beds with a difference. They hold moisture, build fertility, maximize surface volume and are great spaces for growing fruit, vegetables and herbs. Hugelkultur, pronounced Hoo-gul-culture, means hill culture or hill mound.
Source: https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur
Check this out…
Davids’s A YEAR IN THE GARDEN Jan 2017