New on the BOG website: Merlindale Nature Festival 2025 Save the date! This year's Merlindale Nature Festival is on Saturday 2nd August. bordersorganicgardeners.org/…

New on the BOG website: UPDATED: Potato Varieties for Potato Day 2025 Here's our list of the varieties of seed potatoes we'll have available at Potato Day 2025. buff.ly/4bat0OF

New on the BOG website: Stall Holders at the Market at BOG’s 2025 Potato Day This year we have a record-breaking number of stalls at the Potato Day Market. Even if you are not buying seed tatties come long and see what the market has to offer. buff.ly/3X7jHcI

New on the BOG website: The potato Paradox paradox Internet searches for potato varieties always throw up rabbit holes buff.ly/3X07w15

New on the BOG website: Looking forward to spring and growing potatoes Potato Day and spring are not far away now. Lesley Blackthorn tells us about chitting your potatoes, and not planting out too soon. buff.ly/4aRwG7Z

New on the BOG website: How do we research new varieties for BOG Potato Day? Where to look if you’re trying to find out about a potato variety buff.ly/4jzyPsZ

New on the BOG website: Potato Day 2025 flyers and posters Get your flyers here! buff.ly/4jAtAJE

New on the BOG website: Missing some old (potato variety) friends… Sadly unavailable at Potato Day 2025, six of our regular seed potato varieties. buff.ly/4axMgW4

New on the BOG website: Potato Varieties for Potato Day 2025 Here's our list of the varieties of seed potatoes we'll have available at Potato Day 2025. buff.ly/3Pu7EC5

New on the BOG website: Preparations started for BOG Potato Day 2025 Border Organic Gardeners' 2025 Potato Day will be on us sooner than we think! Put the 2nd March 2025 in your diary, and we'll see you there. buff.ly/3CdvRcj

New on the BOG website: Announcing the Borders Seed Collective BOG is launching its seed saving and sharing initiative this autumn and we want to encourage to try saving your own seed. Read more about getting started with your own plants. buff.ly/4deHiND

New on the BOG website: Apple Festival 2024 stallholders We are delighted to announce that once again we have had a strong demand for stalls at BOG's Apple Festival 2024 and with all the space taken, there will be the usual favourites and a few new faces. buff.ly/4eccq1P

New on the BOG website: Harvesting the new hay meadow Prue Pullen is one of seven BOG members taking part in the Tweed Meadows project. After the first year of spreading seeds and letting nature take its course, it's now time to harvest the hay meadow. buff.ly/3AOMVVp

New on the BOG website: A myriad of apple varieties Thousands of apple varieties are cultivated but very few are available to buy in the supermarkets. Come to the Apple Festival and see what you have been missing! buff.ly/3MpxHJb

New on the BOG website: Love your wasps Are wasps an ally to be encouraged or a pest to be eradicated? BOG regular Lesley Blackthorn makes the case for our buzzy friends. buff.ly/3SLxOSW

New on the BOG website: Summer pruning for healthy autumn crops of apples and pears – all ready for our Apple Festival! Read about what we learnt at BOG's summer pruning workshop. Hints and tips for healthy fruit. buff.ly/3Y2HdZG

New on the BOG website: Seed sowing starts in Tweed Meadows A BOG work party gathers to help restore traditional hay meadows and provide habitat for our native wildlife. buff.ly/48LE41Z

Updated Post: Tweed Meadows Project buff.ly/3Usj5h8

Updated Post: Apple Festival October 2024 buff.ly/3T1J9NP

New on the BOG website: Tweed Meadows Project Most of the UK's upland hay meadows have disappeared since the late 1940's. The Tweed Meadow Project, run by Merlindale Nature, seeks to reverse this loss. buff.ly/3Usj5h8