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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Creating and Repairing Paths
TUESDAY
The sun showed his face through the clouds on only the odd occasion on tuesday at Cammo Estate, but this didn't dampen the volunteers spirits in the slightest as we quickly constructed a 15 metre bark chip path ...
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Out with the Old
Today was the last day tackling the Giant Hogweed for Cromarty Fisheries Project on a site near Milton. A combination of brute force severing tap roots and selective spraying with glycosate should knock out three generations ...
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