Tis the season for donating vegetables
The season seems to trickle along and then suddenly it goes mad. It’s a joy to watch how quickly everything grows while living in flipflops, shorts and a hat. The recent heat wave has had temps up to 30C/90-ish and it’s been murdering seedlings….
Does video work?
Let see if this text keeps the image of the video in view 12 tonne trailer of organic mushroom compost
New beds and a hot dry spell
Row five has mostly Cardoons, Mooli, Pak Choi and Kohlrabi. Watering is now a daily job, as the beds dry out in the sun, with the constant breeze has the biggest impact. Cauliflowers go to flower quickly in the heat. The heads expand and…
Summer veggies and more beds
6 more beds have appeared and five filled with compost and seedlings. It’s going to be an organic production and needs to ramp up as the economic pressure mounts on households unused to facing food poverty. A 12 tonne load of organic compost has…
Children grew 60 lettuces from six beds!
The School term finishes on Friday so the idea was to let the kids take home some of their produce. Lettuce was the only obvious thing they could take and 60 were harvested from the beds. Photos of excited kids are shared with parents…
Organic vegetables donated to Eats Rosyth
This is the first donation in 2022 to Eats Rosyth; cabbage, lettuce, crookneck (yellow) and romanesco (green ridged) courgettes and shallot scapes used in an omelette for the volunteer’s lunch. It was delicious. Bravo Brenda👩🍳 Have you tried scapes? They are onion/shallot/garlic flowers and…
How to build a raised bed from pallets
The aim is to show how easy it is to make a bed. Finding a the right pallet is the hardest part of making this bed. Vinegar and oil are the only materials and cost a couple of pounds. This is a free course…
Treetop Family Nurture Center Rosyth
Something special happens when you show youngsters how plants grow, explain how to be gentle with the seedlings and letting them push them in the soil. Some are slightly damaged, some in the wrong place but it does not matter. The importance is that…
In as little as a month
The children at Carron Primary near Falkirk were enthusiastic at planting and most, had no idea what the seedlings would grow into. In less than a month of watering and spraying with ‘onion and garlic fermented plant juice (FPJ)’ this is the result. Purple…
Jubilee, more beds and salads
These salads are from the garden, and are delish; Onion Scapes (flowering stems) are like spring onions, loads of lettuce varieties, baby carrots, radish, red and green sorrel, nasturtium leaf and flowers, brassica flowers, peas, spinach and chard. A few marjoram leaves and anything…