Run by The ASK Organic Garden Club. Registered Scottish Charity SCO37803.

ASK Organic works with the Garden Club in this delightful 1/2 acre garden within Woodside Walled Garden. A wide range of organic methods are demonstrated, and trials on themes such as weed eradication and effective slug barriers are being conducted. Attractive potagers show that vegetables can look as good as flowers, and there's an extensive composting area and a wide selection of wildlife plantings. There's lots to see and learn!

What’s in the Garden?

The Composting area: see how any plant debris from the kitchen or garden can be composted or recycled in the garden.
The Vegetable Garden: a small garden using a 4 year rotation system
Potagers: we aim to show that every plant, looks stunning.
Herbs and Scented Plants: give your senses a treat by pinching and sniffing aromatic leaves and delightful flowers.
Plantings for birds: see the plants that work for birds.
Plants for insects: see how plant colour and shape suit insects.
Organic weed eradication trials: the first major scientific trial into organically removing the weed, horsetail, Equisetum arvense.
Herbaceous border: but one with a difference – only wild, native flowers grace this border.
Wild meadow mixes: as a treat for wildlife, we’ve sown our lawn edge with wild flowers and grasses, showing that “the scalped lawn” is a thing of the past.
Pond: the appeal of water to so many creatures.
Willow: arches, hedges and a hut with a living herb seat.

Visitors to the garden and supporters of this, the first organic demonstration garden in Scotland, are asked to make a donation towards the upkeep of the garden.
Opening Times:
The Organic Garden, like Woodside Walled Garden, is open to visitors all year, 7 days a week, 10am to 5pm March to October, 10am to 4pm November to February. Someone from ASK Organic is usually available to answer questions on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays between 11am and 4pm March to October.
How to find us:
To visit Woodside, 3 miles north of Jedburgh, follow signs for "Woodside Walled Garden", turn east off A68 on to B6400, signed "Nisbet".

We would like to thank The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for generously supporting our interpretative work and Borders Organic Gardeners for sponsoring our Horsetail trials [run by that group between 2003 and 2006].