From ground to plate…
Since the last garden blog things have been progressing well. Even with the strange Spring and Summer weather, with snow in April, a mini heat wave in May and then rain throughout June and July, [...]
Weeds, Weeds and more Weeds……….
We must have excavated down about 2-2.5ft all over the main front of the garden and significantly more in the channels and brought in around 500 tonnes of gravel and hard-core in replacement. This gravel [...]
Waterlogged Winter Woes!!
The record levels of rain fall has proved to be a very unwelcomed guest this winter. It soon became apparent that the original, Victorian clay drainage in the garden was not up to the job. [...]
The Kitchen Garden…work begins
Soon after Richard was appointed...the real work began. This included, cutting back, weeding and mulching of flower beds, reclaiming, marking out and rotivating 10 new outdoor veg beds. This process took several weeks and included [...]
Meet Richard, our new Kitchen Gardener
I am delighted to announce that I have been appointed as the new Kitchen gardener. For those of you who visited the gardens earlier this year, you will appreciate the scale of the project ahead [...]
