Organic gardening
Learn how to make your garden more environmentally friendly.
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Date and time
16 October 2026
10.30am to 4pm
Location
Lady Lisa Lecture Theatre
Entry via Jodrell Gate
Price
£82
Kew member: £72
Adults only/18+
This course with award-winning tutor and writer Christine Lavelle will teach you how to create your own environmentally-friendly garden.
Christine will share hints and tips on composting, fertilisers, companion planting, disease resistant cultivars of fruit and vegetables as well as border design for ornamental gardens to encourage natural predators.
Organic gardening is all about carrying out good practice in the garden, it's as simple as that!
Christine Lavelle was awarded the Garden Writer's Guild, Practical Book of the Year award, for her book on organic gardening.
Please note, this course is for adults aged 18+ only.
Garden entry is included in the price of this ticket.
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About the tutor
Christine Lavelle is a lecturer in horticulture and ecology at Writtle College, Chelmsford, UK, and an external examiner for the School of Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She trained at the National Trust for Scotland’s Threave School of Practical Gardening and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Christine was assistant Head Gardener at Levens Hall topiary gardens in Kendal and Hardy Ornamentals Team leader at Askham Bryan College in York. Her main areas of work are in organic growing and wildlife gardening.
Together, Christine and her husband Michael Lavelle won the Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award in 2003 and 2008 for their books Organic Gardening and How to Create a Wildlife Garden (both published by Lorenz Books).