Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: September 2020

Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden

Welcome to the Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden website! We are committed to organic gardening. Using the best practices from the Victorian days (i.e. lots of horse manure) and knowledge gleaned from the Ryton Organic Gardens we have set out to tame our Warwickshire clay. It’s all about sustainability, so as well as organic gardening, we’re always looking to better ways to work with our environment.

On this site you can find out about our history and the projects we are working on. You can come visit the garden and learn about organic gardening. Follow our blog to see what’s on our mind in the garden this month.

For the first 8 years all the work was carried out by just the two of us. Now we have help and are passing on our knowledge to students on the WRAGS (Work and Retrain As a Gardener Scheme).

We also find time to be involved with the WOT2Grow Community Orchard in Tysoe and have planted a 3 acre wood close to Tysoe, just over the border in Oxfordshire with a grant from the Woodland Trust.

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Wildlife in the garden

In July I posted “a compost surprise” , here are a few more surprises in August and September.

You saw the grass snake in the compost bin, it disappeared and have no idea where it went but yesterday revealed that it must be somewhere in the garden. The reason is we saw a baby! sliding along by the wall.

What about this? do you know what it is?

The hebe flowers have been covered in all kinds of bees and flies, this was a pretty one

Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden