Join our friendly casual group! Springtime at Ninewells Community Garden Calling all novices and those with green fingers. Join us on Wednesday afternoons 1-3pm in our vibrant garden with trees, vegetables, bee hives and much more.  What to Expect: At Student Garden Club, we will embracing the joys of leaving Winter behind and having fun while we do it. From the excitement of beekeeping to the satisfaction of growing your own veggies, every moment there is something new for everyone to try. What to Wear: Dress comfortably, for the weather and be prepared to get your muddy. We recommend w ..read more

Ninewells Community Garden is hoping to gain funding for an Apple Press. Bring us your unloved apples and we will turn them into delicious juice! We have been successful at applying to Dundee City Council’s Climate Choices Fund 2.0 but we need your vote! If we can get 150 votes we have a high chance of success. So please help out and give us a vote and tell your friends to vote for us too. VOTE HERE ! Voting is much easier this year than last year – you can sign in with facebook, google or mygovscot. Just sign in and click vote and that’s it! Takes 1 minute! There’s lots of amazing projects o ..read more

We are three third year medical students and are undertaking a project in Healthcare Improvement. We are working Ninewells Community Gardens to gain more experience in 3rd sector organisations that look at health and wellbeing within the community from a non-medical perspective. The aim of our project, Seed to Fork, was to encourage people to eat seasonally and promote growing their own vegetables, as it is much cheaper and more sustainable. We have done this by creating a curry recipe using seasonal vegetables and producing a food bag containing all the ingredients to hand out at the Menzies ..read more

Job Opportunity – Join the Ninewells Garden Team We are recruiting! Ninewells Community Garden is looking for an enthusiastic person to work with our Garden Facilitators & volunteers.  A large part of the job involves working with NHS & Care staff to provide opportunities for them to benefit from green and outdoor spaces. The post is fixed term to end of March 2026. Good project management and Microsoft skills are essential for the post. The post holder will work closely with the staff & volunteers who already deliver an extensive range of activities in Ninewells Community &am ..read more

Wednesday 5th July – 10:30am till 2:30pm Ninewells Community Garden invites you to join us for a ‘Big Tea’ party to celebrate the NHS turning 75. 5th-july-invitationDownload ..read more

We are often asked about the fabulous art in and around the garden, here is a small history of what we have and why. Penguin Statue In 2018 there was a Penguin Trail around Dundee with the decorated penguins auctioned off to raise money for the Maggie’s Charity. One of the Penguins was bought by DC Thompson, who donated the penguin to Maggie’s. As there was no space at Maggie’s it came to be displayed at the garden in 2019. photo of Penguin by Christina Howie Owl and squirrel we took delivery of our new owl in June 2021, made by Tom Harris-Ward, it was a replacement for a wooden owl which stoo ..read more

Facilitator Carol ran a workshop showing participants how to Upcycle some bricks into a nifty planter that takes minimal care. Here’s the basics of how to do this at home. Succulents are not very demanding plants and can survive, or even thrive, in conditions you might not expect. Succulents don’t need a lot of water and soil to thrive, that’s why you can find them growing on the sides of walls with their roots in the tiniest of crevices. We can take advantage of this to make a mini garden planter in the smallest of spaces. Two planted up bricks. The Garden was donated a pile of bricks and we ..read more

Here’s the page to find all the Resource sheets our digital volunteers and facilitators are producing. Resource Sheet – Building a bug hotelDownload Resource Sheet – Quick Growing VegDownload Resource Sheet – Retaining WaterDownload Resource Sheet – WormeriesDownload resource-sheet-small-space-gardeningDownload Credits to Kim Forsyth and Colleen Allwood (small space gardening) for making the resource sheets ..read more

Volunteer Kim got creative and made a festive bird feeder before Christmas- a great idea and one you could adapt for different seasons. Here’s how she did it. I’d seen an outdoor Christmas Tree for birds a couple years ago and been inclined to try it myself since then. I made garlands out of dried orange and apple slices held together with garden twine. For a bit of contrast, I threaded popcorn and dried cranberries onto cotton thread. I had to pop the corn at home as all the store bought stuff is coated in salt or sugar. But I used a glass topped pot and had great fun doing it. Some easy baub ..read more

Sage advice… Volunteer Marjie is continuing her series about perennial vegetables, click through for Part 1: Skirrets and Part 2: Rosemary As Christmas approaches, some of us might be thinking about festive recipes, and one side dish I always love both making and eating, is sage and onion stuffing. Sage (Salvia officinalis) is a superb perennial herb, with its distinct flavour and fragrance. It has evergreen silvery foliage and beautifully coloured flowers in shades from blue through to dark pink. It can be grown in pots, or in open ground. Perennial sage can be short lived, but provided you h ..read more