Workshops

We had a great day yesterday at our Festive Florals workshop, one of The Caley’s Saughton Sunday activities. We had 9 folk attending the workshop and they made it a fun afternoon, with lots [...]

This workshop is part of our next Saughton Sunday event on 3rd November 2019. “Plants for Free – Hardwood Cuttings” – a practical workshop led by Colin Ainsworth. We are [...]

The Full workshop will be held at Saughton Park at 2pm on 6th October. The cost is £28. For this, participants will pot up 6 pots of bulbs: 4 daffodils, 1 hyacinth and 1 tulip varieties. Please [...]

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 place.  [...]

It has been a mild winter so far this time round and it has been interesting to see how plants have responded. Each year about this time reports appear in the press about the early flowering of [...]

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 [...]

This year’s bulb workshop will take place at the Caley Demonstration Allotment on 20th October.  Start time is 10am.  Thanks to a generous discount from our bulb supplier, Scamp’s [...]

A busy day with a final titivation of the plot for the Open Day. The grass and edges were cut and immediately the plot looked better. No watering needed thanks to all the rain there has been. The [...]

Why not come along to the Open Day on the Caley Allotment and find out what the Allotment Team gets up to.  There will be a Summer Fruit Pruning workshop given by Caley Honorary President (and [...]

A very fine autumn day though a little warm for all the hard work. We finally managed to tidy the shed – badly needed!    It is surprising how things accumulate even in the small shed we [...]