Free Talk: ‘Composting – All You Ever Wanted to Know!’

Speaker: Andrew Babicz

• What’s the point?
• What can I do with it?
• What can I compost?
• What can’t I compost?
• What are the ingredients to make it successful?
• Leaf Mould The types of bins/heaps etc., and wormeries.

Andrew is currently the Secretary and a judge with the London Gardens Society which includes London’s Squares, Bexley in Bloom and London Alms-houses.

“I started as an apprentice gardener at Inverewe Gardens in the North West coast of Scotland with The National Trust for Scotland and went on to work at The Royal Horticultural Society‘s Garden, Wisley, Kew Gardens and Hampton Court Palace Garden. I also spent a year working on nurseries in Holland.

I studied at Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, for two years and then studied for three years at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

I worked for the Parks Department of the London Borough of Croydon as their Horticultural Officer and then moved to the London Borough of Redbridge as Assistant Parks Manager, subsequently becoming their Chief Recreation Manager.” SpeakerNet

Come to our first Talk of 2026! The Talk begins at 8pm. Doors open at 7.30pm.

All welcome. Suggested donation £5.

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS TALK WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE SUDDEN ILLNESS OF THE SPEAKER.