A much appreciated clear-up took place at Merkinch Nursery School in their beautiful garden.
The gang today were fun and the weather was bright. Biscuits from the school added to the pleasure of the morning's work. ...
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Archives for June 2011
Notes on Balsam
A brief comment as to why we prefer to pull up Himalayan Balsam by hand instead of the slash-it method:
1. It comes up very easily.
2. It's safer than having others around you being too enthusiastic as though they ...
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Cakes logs and weeds
Tuesday was a wonderful day!!! We headed down to Cockenzie and Port Seton to their community garden to help them out by pruning some wildly overgrown shrubs, at least that was the idea. Once we had reached the site we were ...
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A Spot Of Gardening…
A definite Garden theme filled this week for us in Edinburgh. On Tuesday we shot off to help dismantle BTCV's entry in the Gardening Scotland competition. This year Heath's Alice in Wonderland theme won a silver award and ...
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Not always pretty in pink
Is it a lovely plant for the garden or just a nuisance? Himalayan Balsam has a reputation of destruction and domination, however bees do use it as a source of nectar. Pete our dedicated volunteer worked his boots off clearing ...
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