With lots of effort and loads of ferns, we pretty well finished our Fernery yesterday. Not too much to see yet but we have high hopes for the summer. Many thanks to Keep Scotland Beautiful and Tesco for the Community Grant, all who helped and to Heather McHaffie, Kevock Garden and Bowdens who all donated ferns.
The first activity of the morning was to investigate a hyacinth bulb that was coming out of the ground, upside down. We were slightly surprised to find well-formed leaves and a flower 25cm into the ground. The leaves had clearly not been exposed to light. Most odd!
While weeding was the main order of the day, we used our own compost, emptying a bin. Most has gone into the sunken area near the Laverockbank Road gate. It’s now almost level with the surrounding borders.
The plants in the park seem to be ignoring the temperature and flowering with gusto.
Yes, the next gardening session is on 1st April! All jokes and pranks at the park will be enjoyed.
The forecast is fine and there is plenty to do. Please come along if you can.
There’s a gardening session on Wednesday, usual time. Loads to do and the forecast is fair. Please come along if you can.
A few hardy souls turned out on an unseasonably warm Hogmanay. We weeded some more, collected more leaves, edged a couple of borders and enjoyed the weather.
A rotten Wednesday morning certainly justified the decision to cancel today’s volunteer session. It was cold wet and windy.
We’re well on with our composting project (funded by a City of Edinburgh Council Waste Action Grant). The compost bins are complete and nearly full already. There are signs that the composting is getting going but we’ve added worms to speed things up. The main screens are now in place – all level with right angles and straight lines thanks to Sandy. Next stage is the bark path and some climbing plants so the screen blends in with the rest of the park.
It was a terrific Wednesday morning, despite some early frost, and we had an excellent turnout of members plus a team of three from Quintiles on an away day. We got loads done, collecting over 20 wheelbarrows of leaves and making good progress on the screens for the compost bins. Janet produced coffee and cakes at 11 – as you can see, Janet didn’t manage to bring a red carpet for our visitors. All in all, we had a great morning, capped by Louisa, Steven and Erica adding the worms to the compost bins!
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