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Gardeners Kitchen – Runner Beans

…potato stew. Here is the recipe: Chop four medium sized waxy potatoes into small chunks and boil in salted water until tender. Meanwhile sauté a chopped onion, several cloves of…

Botanic Cottage Garden Social August Blog

…have courgettes, leeks, peas, broad beans, sweet peas and the fruit garden is full of strawberries, apples, pears and plums. Courgettes, broad beans, potatoes, peas, salad, spinach, chard, carrots and…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club Late February 2021

…lunch and is good hot or cold. The peas and mint in this recipe give it a spring-like flavour, new potatoes are really good in this recipe too if you…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club April 2020

…volume of leeks to potatoes if you can. Leeks can be gritty, so to clean them well – first chop off the thicker green ends and the stalk end too,…

International Women’s Day 2017: Dr Tiina Sarkinen

Tiina is originally from Finland and is a Biodiversity Scientist in Edinburgh working on the economically important plant family Solanaceae. This family includes potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and chilli peppers. She…

Fields of Plastic?

…John Hope Gateway, showcasing the botanical origins of some alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. Substances derived from many familiar plants, including sugarcane, cotton, maize and potatoes, can be transformed into bioplastics….

Evidence, action, inspiration – how nature-based solutions help combat the climate emergency

…as drought-tolerant cacao and heirloom potatoes, best able to withstand the effects of climate change and minimise food shortages. The inspiration As one of Scotland’s best loved visitor attractions, we…

Spring into Edible Gardening

…egg box can be a container for chitting seed potatoes (enouraging sprouting before planting out) – it’s not too late to do this if you get going now. Mine have…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club late April 2020

…salad or some garlicky green vegetables plus some noodles, rice or potatoes. I also like these fishcakes in a roll with some salad too. Use what you have! Thia-style-fishcakes-recipeDownload Something…

Winter in your edible garden

…greens Planning Plan next year’s plot, research and decide what to grow Reassess last year’s design in light of successes and failures Order seed, seed potatoes and onion sets Preparation…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club Late March 2021

…last blog with parsnip cake. The stew recipe today is a great example, instead of the squash you can use carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes… they all have their own flavour…

Uses for a ‘common’ flower

…göd wadder        – good weather mael                   – meal taaties                – potatoes maet                   – food kye                    – cattle pey                    – pay wark                   – work firbye                 – besides,…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club Late April 2021

…pesto and hazelnuts. If you can find heritage carrots of different colours then this will be even more beautiful. Enjoy hot or cold. Add some boiled potatoes and salad for…

Dr Joan Cottrell, Forest Research

…of low-temperature sweetening in potatoes, an important problem in the crisp industry. This may seem a strange background for a career in forest genetics and conservation, but people often make…

Alchemists and gardeners

…could be told through plants – from opium to ebony, cacao to cotton, potatoes to soy, rubber and oil palm. “Our origins and destiny are inextricably entangled with those of…

Lettuce and Lovage soup

…tablespoon vegetable oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 stalk of lovage, chop the stalk, reserve the leaves 1 litre vegetable stock 250g potatoes, peeled and…

The story so far

…course dined on fresh salad, potatoes, kale and courgettes to name but a few. This week the RGBE’s second year horticulture students have been busily planning, designing and preparing brand…

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 the potatoes

Communities in Nature – the social role of botanic gardens

…their plots and have dug them over, put up plant supports, planted potatoes and sown some seeds. In fact they were so involved they didn’t want to stop for a…

August; sowing seeds and harvesting crops

We are busy harvesting early potatoes, broad beans and peas, salads, onions, garlic and beetroot. One of the great skills of vegetable growing is to keep your plot in constant…