Open spaces strategyLast night I attended a public consultation about EDCs open spaces strategy held in the Fraser Centre in Milngavie. Council owned, open...
Slug traps - Night 2A good nights slug trapping with the beer-filled traps. A hunt caught two further slugs on the sunflowers last night. Tally made this...
Slug traps - Night 1I went out last night and checked two of the three beer-filled slug traps and the sunflowers that one of them was guarding. Two slugs...
Slug traps - Any good?I have a couple of different slug traps loaded with creamy pints of Tesco value bitter. They protect my lettuces, runner beans and my...
Make your own liquid fertiliser.Why send your kitchen waste away in a council bin and buy fertiliser - both of which have a carbon footprint - when you can easily make...
Growing apples in your garden.Glasgow is wet and reasonably far north so not all apples that local garden centres will sell you will do well in an organic Milngavie...
Recent bird visitorsI filled up the bird feeder with sunflower hearts last week and the garden is once again swarming with birds. At one time I counted 18...
Wildflower meadow musingsInspired by the machair we saw on Benbecula last summer and keen to bring more good insects into the garden I tried a few different...
The potato planter experimentI just harvested one of our three 40l grow bags of Charlotte potatoes - which are meant to do well in containers - to cook up some saag...
Summer veg updateThe Vegetable garden continues to look good and provides us all our own greens: lettuce, perpetual spinach and Swiss chard have all been...