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.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

November surprise, going, going, gone!

Monday, despite the nights getting colder we still have warm days so the dahlias are still flowering and the grass is still growing. Nearly 10 days without rain so I managed to mow the grass again, it was getting very long, a bit damp from overnight dews but I manged to get it done.

Tuesday, woke up the find all is white, paths roads, garden, all covered in about 3 inches (7cm) or more of snow. The dahlias have all gone black so time to cut down and mulch, when the snow melts.

                                                            There is a path there somewhere!

Wednesday, nothing much changed, the overnight temperature in the garden averaged -2 and daytime was 4 degrees.

Thursday, it was warming slightly -1.4 overnight but 3.6 daytime, so the snow was ice on top and not going anywhere.

Friday,  I can see the garden now. Overnight we are out of minus figures with an average of 1.4 and during the day 6 degrees.





Saturday, the white has all gone, overnight temperature 6.1 and during the day a blistering 16.1. Snow has melted but it is raining. 

Sunday, in the last 2 days we have had 28.73mm of rain.

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November surprise, going, going, gone!

Monday , despite the nights getting colder we still have warm days so the dahlias are still flowering and the grass is still growing. Nearly...