Greener Peebles

22/06/2026

Fresh off the Eden Festival magic bus, Katy Swift and Hannah Willow are bringing their show for the littles to the community garden! ✨🌈 🌝

All welcome, see poster for details.

One not to miss - pop it in your diaries.

19/06/2026

It was wonderful to welcome friends old and new to the first of this year's 'Pick Your Own' event in the garden today. Warm thanks to those that joined us, harvested some delicious herbs and veggies, and supported the garden with your donations - we hope your supper is delicious and nutritious.

🧺 Our next 'Pick Your Own' will be Friday 17th July, 10.30 till 11.30am. All welcome. Veggies, fruit (we hope!) and herbs by donation, plus a chance to soak up the garden in it's full summer splendour.

A big shout out to our trusty volunteers for supporting the event and planting, snipping, watering, mowing this week. The garden is thriving and beautiful thanks to your incredible efforts🌸🐞🥬

18/06/2026

Another block of Grow Kids sessions has whizzed by - full of planting, watering, mulching, harvesting, tasting and plenty more!

This week, to celebrate another season gardening together, the children made herbal tea for everyone to share. It's a great way for the wee ones to learn some of the wonderful herbs that grow abundantly at this time of year; learning their names, experiencing the smells, tastes and sensations of their very own herbal blend! We used chamomile, mallow, lemon balm, lady's mantle, elderflower and rose 🌸🍵🤲

Thank you to all the wonderful families that have joined us in the garden this spring, we are now off for a couple of weeks break, and to wish back the sunshine for summer solstice ☀️☀️☀️

📧 If you'd like to find out more about these gardening sessions for pre-schoolers and their carers, please get in touch with Helen - [email protected] for more details and to be added to our waiting list.

12/06/2026

As all food growers know, it's a bit of a bonkers time of year in the vegetable garden, with many plants desperate to reach their final homes, but with volunteers like ours, it's an absolute breeze and a pleasure! Thank you to everyone that gave their time and care to our treasured garden this week. Special shout out this week to Peebles High School for your help weeding today!

We're now on the home straight planting out the tender crops, new supports with robust lashing are being built for climbing beans, the very last repairs on the brassicas cage are complete, and some new herb friends joined the party in our ever expanding and sensuous herb garden.

Today was also time for rhubarb and sweet cicely to shine at our crumble making skill share. Both these plants are growing abundantly in our garden; one cultivated, one wild. If you'd like to learn more about delicious sweet cicely, here's a very reliable resource
https://gallowaywildfoods.com/sweet-cicely-edibility-identification-distribution/

📧 If you would like to be involved in the community garden - YOUR community garden - there are many ways to get involved, from helping with maintenance jobs, watering, mowing & strimming, to a wide variety of gardening activities every Tuesday and Friday morning, 10-12.
No experience necessary.
To find out more, get in touch at [email protected]

10/06/2026

05/06/2026

Happy Volunteers' Week everyone! Today we gathered together for two important activities - to plant up our new Bee Bed with the lovely plants courtesy of RePollinate, and then to celebrate by singing along to lots of well-known songs performed by the fantastic Mind the Music! group from Nomad Beat - community music school, and enjoying delicious lemon drizzle cakes made by The Food Foundation. A massive thank you to all of our brilliant volunteers - the garden is the wonderful community asset that it is thanks to your dedication and awesome vibes! 🥰🌿🥦

03/06/2026

It's Survey Time!

Your feedback is important to us! Please take part in our Community Consultation https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GVQHPTQ

Only 7 questions – each one is multiple choice, with an option to add a comment.

Every 2 years we run a Consultation Survey. This helps us know which areas to develop, so the design and activities in the community garden have been directly chosen by the local people who enjoy and grow the garden. Please do have your say!

As you know, every year we fundraise to secure the running costs of the garden. With inflation and rising costs, this is an ongoing challenge. By completing the survey, you can help us to demonstrate the difference having the garden makes to you – this will help us to secure the funding required to keep the community garden running and open to everyone.

Thank you so much for your time.

29/05/2026

Boom shakalaka! There's a fantastic momentum going on at the moment in the community garden! Our brilliant maintenance and watering teams have been keeping the plants alive in this week's heat, the paths mown, continuing the repairs of the small polytunnel, and installing a gutter along the side of Takiwātanga, the polycarbonate tunnel, to enable us to harvest more rainwater.
We've also been preparing the new 'Bee Bed' - an area of the garden that hadn't been cultivated for a number of years and that, thanks to RePollinate, we are soon to be planting with a mixture of native and non-native bee-friendly plants: watch this space for developments!
Our gorgeous forest garden at the other end of the garden is really starting to take shape, we're excited to see how it grows over the coming years.
What a week! A thousand thank yous to everyone who gives up their precious time and energy to make our community garden thrive 🤩🐝🌿

22/05/2026

It's not just this tree bumblebee that's buzzing in the garden at the moment - we are too! We are loving this busy time of seed sowing, potting on, planting out, weeding, mulching, repairing, grass cutting, watering, hoeing - there's a lot of ING in our ZING! Today at our Young Plant Share, however, we did more perusing, choosing, and eating than gardening - it was great to welcome back some garden friends as well as welcome some new folks, and we enjoyed a super tasty lunch provided by The Food Foundation. The Eyed ladybird that we found among the leftover plants by the pines (see post below for more info about those plants) was the final delight of a delightful morning!
Huge thanks to all our fabulous volunteers, to all who joined us today, and to all who kindly donated to our special community garden. Have a lovely weekend everyone! 🐝🌞🪴🐞