Blog post by Volunteer Christina From the 11th until the 15th of November 2021 the garden will be decorated in Poppies of various mediums, and colours to remember all who have served, some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice and…
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Life on the Borderline
Volunteer Christina has seen changes in the garden over the time she has been volunteering, she documents the challenges and changes in one of our perennial borders here. It feels like ”A Long time ago in a Galaxy far, far…
IN PRAISE OF PERENNIAL VEG (Part 2 of a series)
Volunteer Marjie continues her series about perennial vegetables, part one here This time we're talking herbs rather than vegetables, but as with perennial veg, herbs will provide a constant supply year after year, with the minimum amount of care. Fresh…
Nature Notes, July 2021
Volunteer and trustee Jim has been recording Nature notes of flora and fauna seen at and around the Ninewells Garden here's the notes from July 2021 Wildlife Area Sightings Below is a photo of my first 2020 sighting this morning…
Moth Workshop at the Garden
Volunteer Siobhan attended the July 2021 Moth Workshop and has shared her experience here On Friday 9th July at 10am I attended a moth activity session at the Ninewells Community garden to celebrate national moth night. The Event was hosted…
Street Wisemen
In my previous blog, Neighbours 3, I mentioned that the roads within Ninewells grounds are named after various people with scientific significance but it was another story ….. here is that story. I will begin with those roads to the…
IN PRAISE OF PERENNIAL VEG (Part 1 of a series)
Volunteer Marjie is writing us a series of blogs on some of the perennial veg we are growing in the garden Part two here Why perennial vegetable growing? Well as the name suggests, they'll come back year after year, there's…
U3A Gardening Group Visit
Volunteer Christina has written a blog about her visit to the garden with the University of the Third Age Gardening Club. When I retired, as well as joining the Ninewells Community Garden I joined the U3A, the University of the…
Ninewells Community Garden: It’s Your Neighbourhood Update
Volunteer and Trustee Peter Sandwell has written us an explainer about the Garden Participation in It's Your Neighbourhood. It’s Your Neighbourhood is Beautiful Scotland’s community environmental improvement initiative which is managed in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) under…
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Bread and Butter Pudding
Volunteer Christina has shared her Bread and Butter pudding recipe with us. Recently there has been a large push to avoid food waste and some folk think this is a new phenomenon. This is however not the case as this…
