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Latest blog stories connected with learning at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Most of last week I spent on building support structures for my peas, beans and sweet peas. I went for the cane and twine fence idea and constructed…
Some weeks ago I mentioned that we received some funding through the Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI) and their Communities in Nature project. Communities in Nature is an…
The demonstration garden at the Botanics is a veritable frenzy of activity at this time of year. It is not just the Edible Gardening Project team at work…
Another unwelcome visitor appeared on my plot – slugs. This time the victim turned out to be Nemophila maculata ‘Five spot’ seedlings. Slugs munched on the cotyledons and…
Pricking out can be either a relaxing or stressful activity. In my case it turned to be the latter one. I simply got overwhelmed by the task: three…
Willow fence – a recent addition on my plot. Constructed with a thought of keeping children at bay and as a support structure for fleece and letter netting….
Our visitors always ask what we do with the vegetables from the edible garden. We are proud to tell them that the produce goes to our very own…
In the last four weeks many different plant support structures appeared on student plots. Each one of them demonstrates my classmates’ creative approach to practical tasks. Below I…
4 weeks ago I hold a big sowing session on my plot and covered with seeds almost the entire area of it. I sowed sweet peas Lathyrus odoratus…
We’ve been out of the garden and in the kitchen more than usual this week. The Science on a Plate events held during the Edinburgh International Science Festival…
Gosh! What a week. I was going to try and avoid going on about the weather; there’s been enough of that on the news. Plus I always start…
We have been busy little bees in the garden this week and are sowing seed like mad. (Inbetween sunbathing and eating ice creams obviously, it’s all just so…
This week’s blog is by RBGE’s Ian Edwards; Back in prehistory, before the polytunnel, people would eagerly anticipate the first wild greens of Spring as a way of…
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…
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…
As they say you learn on your mistakes… I had a look today (Fri 2 March 2012) on my bean and pea seeds sowed in paper pots. They…
When you take an owenership of a piece of land and start cultivating it you become very protective of it. You start realising all dangers which can creep…
A lot of activity on my plot today. First, I placed down some stepping bricks through the middle of my plot to make every inch of it easy…
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…
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….