How to grow salad all year round

How to grow salad all year round

Grow your own with a perpetual "salad bowl garden" practice - sustainable tips

By Festina Lente CLG

Date and time

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:00 - 22:00 GMT+1

Location

Festina Lente

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bray Ireland

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About this event

  • 4 hours

Exploring Festina Lente Kitchen gardens as a platform: Join our senior horticulturist, who will take the gardener on a guided tour through the Victorian Gardens - demonstrating the many different approaches for growing salads, followed by a practical in salad growing


  • We will look carefully at the most economical and efficient ways possible to select and grow the best achievable salad crops on a continuity basis - identify what works best
  • Tailor make your own salad grow plan - to scaffold with your lifestyle, growing space and taste palette. Take aways include: your own salad growing starter seeds to enter a new chapter of "grow your own".

Refreshments included

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Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops,  a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit.  Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus.  The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis.  It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation.  Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly.  Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk.  The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.