by Adam Skelton | Feb 22, 2019 | Things to do in the garden
‘Chitting potatoes’ means leaving your seed potatoes to sprout in a cool (frost-free) place with lots of light. February is a good time to do this.PLEASE SHARE AND LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS Potatoes are a really easy vegetable to grow and, of course, incredibly...
by Adam Skelton | Feb 11, 2019 | Things to do in the garden
Now is a good time to get our vegetable beds prepared. Soil quality is the key factor in growing great produce so we need to be thinking about incorporating lots of organic matter and how best to manage weeds.PLEASE SHARE AND LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS What you have been...
by Adam Skelton | Nov 19, 2018 | Community gardens
Does anyone have any spare soft fruit bushes that they wouldn’t mind donating to our Peebles and Waterheads community gardens? Now is a good time to transplant them when they are dormant and we could really do with some for the gardens.Maybe your raspberries,...
by Adam Skelton | Nov 19, 2018 | Food Communities
Many thanks to all the volunteers who came along to our tree planting at the weekend. You were all amazing!!! It was a brilliant day out at our Waterheads community garden on Saturday. We planted around 400 edible native trees (Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Dog Rose,...
by Adam Skelton | Nov 13, 2018 | Community gardens
Here is a nice reminder of all the great vegetables we grew in our Peebles community garden this year completely for free. Please take a look at the slideshow of images below… This was the first year for our Peebles community garden. A year ago it was an unused...
