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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…
Used as we are to the yellow flowers of the Primrose, there are colour variations of this species which we are lessPrimula vulgaris familiar with. A native to…
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….
Observe the frost on Pachystegia insignis (sometimes called Olearia insignis) and see value added to a plant that you may pass by without a second glance at this…
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…
Seed pods; bright yellow, tucked into the evergreen canopy of Euonymus wilsonii. Splitting apart into even segments revealing the red coated aril. A spectacular find at this time…
Milder weather at the end of this week enabled me to do some outdoors sowing. Today (10 Feb 2012) I sowed two rows of green peas Pisum sativum…
The anti-mice cage is finally completed! After fixing the lid on Tuesday (7 Feb 2012) Jessie and I placed our seed trays in it. I checked on it…
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…
With the days lengthening and the soil warming; growth, especially in herbaceous plants, is shooting away. Helleborus vesicarius is looking promising with flowers colouring optimistically. Opening green these…
On Friday (3 Feb 2012) Jessie, Sara and I embarked on constructing timber floor for our anti-mice cage. Although we ran into some technical difficulties – surprisingly the…
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…
Carpentry is not as easy as it looks. Especially for 5 untrained horticulture students with little previous construction experience. It is a lot of fun, though. Especially when…
Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii ‘John Tomlinson’ is brought to life after rain. The droplets collect on the grey blue waxy cuticle of the leaf and reflect light. Arranged…
It looks like my beans were attacked by mice. The Edible Garden Project team noticed that thriving community of mice is living near the polytunnel. Together with my…
Our native Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) with one of out Arboricultural Team at the top, as it is dismantles to make itsafe in the Upper Woodland Garden after…
I had a look at my broad beans today (24th Jan) and noticed to my astonishment that some unwelcome guests made a feast of them! The intruders must…
On Friday (20th Jan) I sowed some extra broad beans into pots. I sowed them into individual 8cm pots using a mix of John Innes Seed compost, coir…