Fruit trees

The Allotment team will once again be hosting a winter pruning workshop, led by George Anderson. The workshop will take place at the Caley Demonstration Allotment at the Bridgend Allotment […]

We have had some warmth and some rain and now the allotment is looking very green and productive. The fruit and veg are doing well and we have a splendid […]

On a recent walk around the fruit at Saughton I noticed that two of the plants had things wrong with their leaves. Some of the currants had raised red distorted […]

Please see the picture below for details of the upcoming Winter Fruit Pruning Workshop. The pruning workshops always prove to be very popular, so booking is advised to guarantee your […]

Thursday on the Allotment was very chilly and dull. Unfortunately, the promised sun didn’t appear. We worked again on repair of raised beds, finished cutting back the willow, checked all [...]

The best crop ever from the plum tree as you can see from the photograph and there are even more on the side. All the plums were taken off the […]

A pleasantly warm day with sunshine to speed up the ripening of the Victoria plums. They are looking ready to pick but are still sticking resolutely to the branches! Last […]

The buds on the newly planted cherry are filling out so time to net it against the bullfinches who would strip in in no time. We haven’t seen any but […]

Blue skies and warm sunshine today even allowed the more hardy of us to take off jackets. After all the snow, the ground is not dry enough to do any […]

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 […]