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A chilly east wind kept us moving but a bright and sunny day. The apple blossom is now out and looking fine and the first shoots have appeared on the early potatoes, so these were earthed up to [...]

The blossom on the fruit is looking very good but little growth happening elsewhere because of the cold, especially the cold nights. Biochar Trial. We finished planting the biochar trial beds [...]

As I tackled another batch of queries about Gardening Scotland today it occurred to me that I should really be keeping the wider Caley world in the loop about preparations for Gardening Scotland. [...]

When the letter about entering a Pallet Garden at Gardening Scotland lands on the doormat the time it is always a time for reflection.  What?   How? If you haven’t ever done a pallet before [...]

I have been looking at the list of exhibitors in the Floral Hall and the outside Show Gardens.  Fingers crossed for fine weather. See you all there.

The editor’s garden (and house) are finally, it seems, going to be sold.  Just before we get to the really cold stuff, we should be moving to a new and larger garden.  It’s not big, [...]

One of the attractions of this year’s gardening Scotland were the gardens and demonstrations from some of Scotland’s colleges. Oatridge College provided regular demonstrations of [...]

Gardening Scotland was wonderful. Saturday and Sunday didn’t quite have the soaring temperatures of Friday but the Floral Hall and Craft Marquee provided a welcome shelter from the chill [...]

I hope all who went today had a wonderful time.  Having spoken to a few people who went along today I am certainly looking forward to tomorrow (fingers crossed for some nice weather). Here are [...]

In case you haven’t taken the hint thus far, today is the first day of the Gardening Scotland show and yet again it would seem that we are going to have a wonderful weekend for it! Two [...]