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March to do list in the Edible Garden

Soil: Finish preparing the soil for sowing seeds. The aim is to create a fine tilth– a nice crumbly structure that is ideal for germinating seeds. Soil can…

Spring Fever

It feels like we have turned a corner this week, the sun is out and things are most definitely growing in the garden. The beds are prepared and…

Science on a Plate

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s Science on a Plate exhibition is currently up and running in the John Hope Gateway. The exhibition focuses on where the food on…

Going green in the edible garden

Our workshop at the weekend was all about edible gardening in the greenest way possible. Biodiversity We think that if well managed, wildlife and edible gardening can coexist….

Fruit tree pruning at Leith Links children’s orchard

The Edible Gardening Project team spent an extremely pleasant day on Saturday helping Greener Leith with their children’s orchard on Leith Links. The fruit trees where planted about…

Meet the Edible Gardening Project Volunteers

We have a wonderful team of dedicated volunteers helping us run the Edible Gardening Project. During the first eight months of the project we have spoken to over…

Funding news and potato deliberations

Our big news this week is that the Edible Gardening Project has received more funding from the People’s Postcode Lottery. They held their annual charity gala event at…

2011 Scottish Chef of the Year, Neil Forbes visits the edible garden at RBGE.

We were extremely excited to show top chef Neil Forbes around our edible garden last week. What a lovely chap he is too! Like us, Neil is very…

Making plans in your edible garden

It is a chilly old day and as you can see from the pictures there is frost all about (even at 12 noon!). The temperature dropped to -5oc…

Polytunnel stands its ground in the storms

What beautiful a day to get back in the garden! The sun is shining and I’d go so far as to say it is warm outside, a different…

Winter veg in the polytunnel

Our polytunnel has been in place for five months now and we are very pleased with the progress of the crops inside. I popped down to the polytunnel…

Greens all year round

Our drop in session this weekend focused on growing micro leaves and sprouting seeds. As you can see from the photo below, we got a bit distracted and…

The story so far

Welcome to the Edible Gardening Project blog. As well as finding lots of great information and advice to help you start your very own edible garden, you’ll be…