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Sunday 4th March 2 – 4pm Pop along to Gorgie City Farm this weekend for their seed swap event. You can swap your spare seeds (heritage varieties are available), ask experts for help and [...]

George noticed a posting on social media from three years ago where his bulbs and spring flowers were at an advanced stage.   This year (2018)  a similar photograph taken today Sunday 25th [...]

In George’s cold greenhouse the pots of his own bulbs have been given their first watering and are starting to put on growth and show flower buds.  Thise that are well advanced have been [...]

The catkins or lamb’s tails of the male Hazel, Corylus avellana, are prominent as the bushes are not yet in leaf. The smaller female catkins become nuts after being pollinated by the wind. Hazel [...]

A snell wind today to use a good Scots word, but the sun was shining. The winter fruit pruning workshop on Sunday was even more popular than usual with about 40 people turning up to watch George [...]

There is not much change in the Caley bulbs lifted from the plunge at the weekend. They have been out of the plunge for only 4 days but already the leaves are starting to change colour. They will [...]

Rediscovering lost landscapes in Stirling; Garden Archaeology and Community – Dr Murray Cook. Murray is Stirling Council’s Archaeologist and has worked across Scotland for 20 years.  [...]

We potted our bulbs last October but it was the first time we had held the workshops on the allotment.  On Sunday we removed the pots very carefully as they had been covered in soil rather than [...]

Something different today as we took delivery of a load of seaweed from a processing company – seaweed is a good source of nitrogen and potash and helps build up the humus in the soil. Some was a [...]