Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: last stored veg

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.

Friday, May 3, 2024

last stored veg

The vegetables and fruit have stored very well this year, probably because we have not had the early warm weather that usually comes around March.

I used the last of the apples tonight for some apple flapjacks and an apple pie. Amazing as it is May.

We also had the last winter squash roasted for tea.

We grow a lot of winter squash, many eaten before the winter, they ae delicious roasted, but they also keep well if kept cool and dry. The shed is often too damp if the temperature gets very cold. So the place to store them now is in the unheated pantry/utility room.

The one for tea tonight was the last Delicata. A lovely medium sized squash, so called because in the summer the skin is quite delicate, but store into the winter and the skin gets so hard. The only way to cut it open is to use a pruning saw, none of the knives would go through.

Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden