Sage advice... Volunteer Marjie is continuing her series about perennial vegetables, click through for Part 1: Skirrets and Part 2: Rosemary As Christmas approaches, some of us might be thinking about festive recipes, and one side dish I always love…
Volunteer Marjie has shared her recipe for using up the last of the green tomatoes. When I was last up at the Garden I tidied up some of the tomato plants and picked almost a kilo of mostly green and…
Volunteer Marjie continues her series about perennial vegetables, click through to the other posts Part1: Skirrets, Part 3: Sage This time we're talking herbs rather than vegetables, but as with perennial veg, herbs will provide a constant supply year after…
Volunteer Marjie is writing us a series of blogs on some of the perennial veg we are growing in the garden click through for Part 2: Rosemary , Part 3: Sage Why perennial vegetable growing? Well as the name suggests,…
Bob Bilson, of the Strathkinness Community shares his knowledge on growing veg in Scottish gardens: from small plots to large, this useful information will inspire you (and the garden volunteers) to plant for a bumper crop this season. THE SCOTTISH…
Fruit tree planting time is coming up in the garden, so what better than some useful information about the success of fruit growing in Scottish community gardens. In the attached article, Bob Bilson, of the Strathkinness Community Garden, draws on…
Volunteer Marjie shares her experience of using a cardboard mulching technique in her garden. Helena tells me that there are plans to develop another part of the garden using the sheet mulching method. The advantage of this method is that…
Volunteer Marjie Spence has shared this recipe with us- it looks great! One of my favourite winter dishes: hearty and warming, easy to make, and very easy to enjoy! Ingredients: 50g butter 1 medium onion 1 kg red cabbage, finely…
This year the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch will take place between 29th and 31st January 2021, under slightly different circumstances. This is the world's largest bird survey - join in if you can! Last year NCG hosted a group of…
These days, while we settle back into routines of lockdown and the restrictions that go with it, it’s all too easy to allow the molehills to turn into mountains.There’s a great deal of evidence that connecting with nature improves our mental health…
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