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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
The Flowers are still blooming in the garden, and a few late butterflies visiting. The flowers featured here were all photographed in the garden this month. Many thanks to our volunteers for their hard work keeping the garden looking wonderful,…
Bee on a thistle We've been continuing the Online Workshop series, you can catch up any you missed, or any you would like to see again by following the links below, the previous workshop links are in this blog, and…
