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All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For Borage
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We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b.
In this series of blogs we detail all the soft fruits, fruit & nut trees, herbs, edible flowers & veggies that we are growing in our Food Forest, Mini linear Food Forest, Raised Beds and Kitchen Courtyard Garden. Through this series, you’ll discover practical tips on how to sow, grow, divide, prune and care for a variety of plants, while looking at sustainable and environmentally friendly gardening practices.
You can find the full list of the ongoing series
All About Series: Borage
Read the full blog post All About Borage at Caledonian Horticulture covering practical tips on how to sow, grow, divide, prune and care.
Borage is one of the hardest working plants in our Food Forest and raised beds, constantly buzzing with bees, adding colour to the garden and happily filling gaps wherever there’s space. Once you grow it, you quickly realise why so many gardeners love it.
The bright blue star shaped flowers seem to attract every pollinator going, bringing so much movement and life into the garden through the warmer months. We often grow it near fruiting plants and vegetables because of how much insect activity it encourages around the space. It’s also brilliant for supporting biodiversity naturally without needing to overcomplicate things.
Beyond its flowers, borage is surprisingly useful. The young leaves and blooms are edible, the plants work well as a living mulch and the deep roots help draw nutrients up through the soil. We also chop plants back and use the foliage around the garden as a nutrient rich mulch layer, helping feed the beds as they break down.
What we enjoy most is how easygoing it is. Once established, it tends to self seed freely, meaning new plants appear year after year with very little effort from us. It’s one of those plants that feels perfectly suited to a relaxed, wildlife friendly growing space.
Read the full blog post All About Borage at Caledonian Horticulture covering practical tips on how to sow, grow, divide, prune and care.
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Katrina & Clayton and family live in East Ayrshire and share their daily life in the garden on instagram. They practice permaculture principles in the garden, reducing & repurposing waste whenever they can. Katrina shows how home educating in nature has helped Clayton thrive.
Clayton Completed The 2 Grow and Learn Courses with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. He is Autistic, Non Verbal & has been Home Educated since 2018. Katrina & Peter hold their PDC & PDC PRO Permaculture Design Course from Oregon State University.
They featured on BBC Beechgrove Gardens Ep23 2022 and returned in 2023 for an update, Katrina & Clayton are also columnists for ScotlandGrows Magazine, Guest Blog for Caledonian Horticulture as well as working with Gardeners’ World Magazine and many other brands.
They are also Author of the new Children’s Book Series: Clayton’s Garden Journey: Stories of Autism and Gardening. Topics on Growing, Harvesting, Sowing & Composting and 108 Page Weather and Seasons Weekly Gardening Record Book available on Amazon and Kindle.
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