Kitchen Garden
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The Kitchen Garden stretches from the patio to North Garden on the west of Home Garden behind the house. It is 63 m2 in area :
This area is relatively shady because of the houses, the western side being sunnier but it does benefit from sun in the middle of the day. Like all of this part of the garden, the soil is quite rich and moist.
Despite its name, this is not a traditional 'kitchen garden' just growing vegetables for eating. Now that it has been rescued from the weeds it is a mixture of ornamentals - including some highly poisonous aconites! - and vegetables. It also has some small trees which might belong in a traditional 'kitchen garden' but might equally belong in a 'herb garden' : a bay tree and a Sichuan pepper tree. There is much talk of fighting weeds on these pages but there is an additional fight in this area of the garden : fighting whatever is enjoying the vegetable seedlings [probably pigeons as the brassicas seem to be a favourite]. If only they would nibble the aconites instead.
Full details of the ornamental plants can be found in the Kitchen Garden plant list and the context of this area within the garden can be found on the Plan and Areas page.
