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Two weeks of sunshine have seen temperatures rising and crops ripening. The fruit harvest has really kicked in. Last Thursday  (2nd) the team picked punnets of strawberries, black and white […]

It may seem like only yesterday that the allotment crew welcomed George Anderson on to the Caley allotment to demonstrate winter fruit pruning but if you have fruit trees and […]

Illustrated talk by Bill Darbon

Thursday on the allotment was full of glorious sunshine for the third successive day. Everything at the allotment seems super-charged – crops and weeds alike. It’s suddenly peak strawberry [...]

It is hard to think that on the 11th June the team abandoned ship after coffee following a valiant attempt at plot maintenance in heavy rain. Then a week later […]

This is one of the most engaging books on garden design I have come across and yet it has no glossy colour photographs or clever grid patterns to entice you […]

If you have been following the Biggar Bothy blog from Jasmin about her garden in Biggar, why not go and see her “Wild and colourful half acre garden and 3 […]

The 4th of June was a day of sunshine and showers, but felt like peak planting season. The first of the brassicas – healthy little broccoli plants – went in […]