Our walled vegetable garden.

Providing our community and guests with fresh homegrown food all year round.

 

 

Our growing area consists of a Victorian walled garden…

 

… a greenhouse,

 

… polytunnels,

 

… a salad bed,

 

… open fields for potatoes …

 

… and beans …

… apple, pear and plum trees spread around the site,

 

January. The garden is covered in a fur of green manure.

 

… another at 15 degrees.

 

In spring, the propagation area expands into the poly tunnels, where the winter chard is still growing and an extra early crop of potatoes.

 

Hardening off in the cold frame…

 

… and planting out.

The first fresh harvest in May are the broad beans, planted in October.

 

They mark the start of the season of mass blanching and freezing for winter use.

 

An energetic volunteer earthed up all potatoes in the walled garden in an afternoon.

 

Others turn the compost heap.

 

Midsummer. The poly tunnels are now filled with cucumbers, tomatoes, aubergines and peppers.

 

Garlic and potatoes are drying out in the greenhouse.

 

Early autumn.

 

Now pumpkins are curing in the greenhouse and a new generation of seedlings is waiting to be planted out in the poly tunnels…

 

… for a next winter crop.