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.

Saturday, February 14, 2026

2025

 Well what a year!, so hot in the summer, in fact too hot to garden middle of the day over the summer.

We had lots of rain rain on and that helped a lot of the perennial plants and trees.

The biggest apple and pear harvest ever, probably due to the wet early and heat later.

Biggest success, after several years of trying, was the luffa.


As with all gardening we have successes and failures but still managed to harvest plenty of produce, see the table below. Also picked but not recorded were plums, pears, apples and herbs.
 
Lets see what 2026 brings.




2025

 Well what a year!, so hot in the summer, in fact too hot to garden middle of the day over the summer. We had lots of rain rain on and that ...