Tag: polytunnel

Tomatillos in the Edible Garden

As the cold draws in we’ve started to think about what to grow next year in the garden. We like to select a few of the more unusual…

Winter Pesto from the Edible Garden

We were visited on wednesday by Edinburgh Community Food’s Talk of the Walk group. The healthy living group for women in North East Edinburgh trekked down to the…

New Year in the Edible Garden at the Botanics

              It is unusually warm for January which means that the vegetables in the polytunnel have had a bit of a boost…

Wildlife in the vegetable garden

It has been a week for wildlife in the vegetable plots. We like to encourage the birds and beasties as much as possible. Gardens are very important habitats…

Summer vegetables in the Edible Gardening Project polytunnel

We’ve cleared the polytunnel of the last of the winter crops. The spinach was running out of steam and several of the plants had started to flower (also…

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…