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Family: Malvaceae Description Cocoa is an evergreen tropical tree, usually 5 to 8m tall. The flowers are small, yellowish white to pale pink and grow directly from…
If you look very closely at the picture you will see that there are two different vegetable seedlings germinating in the same row. We sowed our parsnips in…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Plot size My plot is approx. 6.5 by 2m. The prescribed vegetable part will take up to around 1/3 of its entire area. Although in overall the plot…