Winter Pruning on the Allotment
Winter maintenance jobs continue with a bonfire burning up the various prunings and dead wood – the wood ash is a good source of potash and will be spread around […]
Week 3 of George’s blog on his progress towards the Caley Spring Bulb Show
With the recent mild spell and sunny days in George’s garden, the pots of bulbs have continued to develop. His task now will be to try to keep the flowers […]
Preparation time on the Allotment
Thursday saw some solid weeding done as the ground is prepared for the start of the growing season. We also started on wiring up the soft fruit which has been […]
One week on and looking promising
One week on from lifting the pots of Caley Bulbs they have all been given their first watering and a dilute potash feed. In general all pots of daffs look […]
Some sunshine on the Allotment
Last Thursday at the Allotment we saw some sunshine, not the overcast skies that were forecast. We finally managed to move the saskatoon, something which had been on the to-do […]
The pots are out of the plunge.
On Friday, a few days earlier than normal, we lifted the pots of spring bulbs members had plunged at Saughton to grow for the Spring Bulbs show. The level of […]
A windy day on the Allotment
Thursday was a day when we had to keep flasks, gloves and anything light weighed down due to the strength of the wind. The repairs continued on the raised beds […]
Caley Talk – “Safeguarding the living collection at RBGE”. Feb 7th.
A look at the work so far of the RBGE Horticultural team, lifting moving and potting the 40,000 plants from the Glasshouses and surrounding areas, to make way for the […]
