Next Gardening Session: Saturday, 14th February, 10.00-11.30
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Weeding and Digging
A fair and busy morning, digging, weeding and planting were the main activities. The main result of our work was an un-raked border.
Other features of today were the nice new notices at the gates and plenty signs of spring.
Next Gardening Session: Wednesday, 11th February, 10.00-11.30
Spring is round the corner! There’s lots to do and frost isn’t forecast! Come along if you can.
Frozen!
The ground was frozen solid this morning but we managed to prune some more of the laurel (I do hope it’s hardy!), do a chunk of tidying up and enjoy coffee and cakes. Despite the cold weather some of the plants seem to think it’s spring. The daffodils are coming through and the primulas are giving a great show for frozen February.
There were loads of birds this morning with mistle thrushes, song thrush, blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, tree creeper, grey wagtail, wood pigeons, blackbirds, starlings, magpies, house sparrows, robins, dunnocks and crows all in evidence in the park.
Wednesday Gardening Session: 4th February, 10.00-11.30
There’s loads to do so please come along, well wrapped up, of course!
Gardening Session, Saturday, 30th January, 10.00-11.30
Weather permitting!
Compost Facilities Completed!
The weather was much better than forecast (it was only very cold with some sleet), so we were able to do a load of planting and weeding. We also managed to finish the path to the compost bins, thus completing the work on the composting facilities. Many thanks to the City of Edinburgh Council whose Waste Action Grant funded this project. Thanks too to Janet for coffee again, which helped revive us after a cold morning’s gardening.
Freshly weeded – don’t be fooled by the sunshine, it was freezing!
The new bark path, screens and compost bins looking east
The new path looking west
Gardening Session: Wednesday, 28th January, 10.00-11.30
Next gardening session in the park is on Wednesday morning. There’s lots to do so please come along if you can.
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