The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg

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Taking us beyond the cultivation of the carrot and cabbage, Hélèna offers a wealth of knowledge on growing a broad range of produce, many of which would have once been considered unusual. So, we asked The Oxfordshire Gardener’s Head Gardener (and kitchen garden specialist) if he’d share his knowledge and aid all the budding ‘patch-to-plate’ growers out there in their goal of bounty of harvested booty. It includes every aspect from preparing to grow, choosing varieties, how to sow/plant, how to nurture, possible problems to watch out for and when/how to harvest. Follow these steps to create a trouble-free vegetable patch that you will be able to pick produce from all summer long.

There are a few culinary hints and tips however Sarah Ravens Garden cookbook is not to be missed when wanting lots of seasonal recipes for using the produce you've grown. You can apply the exact principles to cooking; you have the freedom to apply creativity and personality to whatever you make, and as time progresses, your cooking style will evolve. This book ideal for those like me who want to try and grow things the correct way and the type of pests and disease's to look out for. To help you get to grips with the basics of kitchen gardening, we’ve looked at five nutritious vegetables and included tips on how you can grow them yourself at home. If you’d like to join us for the whole day from 10:30am – 4:30pm then we can provide a vegetarian or vegan lunch, too.When weeding the area, make sure to use your hand rather than a hoe, as the shallow roots can be easily damaged. Look out for rare breeds of chickens, period features and even some brick work by Sir Winston Churchill in our pick of the best kitchen gardens. I'm a keen gardener, but haven't grown much veg, and this book was great last year to get me started in my new garden. In the summer we plant soft herbs like basil, Genovese basil, tangerine sage, pineapple sage and Italian flat leaf parsley. A kitchen garden is really just a portion of your outdoor space that's set aside for the specific purpose of growing food for your kitchen.

This is a contemporary guide to fruit and vegetable growing that underpins our knowledge with approachable, useful botanical science that we can employ in a practical way. The Walled Garden at Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire With an impressive orchard full of apple, pear, plum and medlar trees, the Walled Garden at Wimpole has many rare varieties and period features.When you have lots of different things growing and living alongside one another, it is much harder for something problematic to come along and cause a disaster. The Kitchen Garden at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire As one of the first kitchen gardens in our care to be renovated back in 1995, the Victorian Walled Garden at Beningbrough Hall is home to a large variety of produce. Although some rules-of-thumb need to be understood, growing your own is essentially something that can be interpreted in many different ways.