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, April 5, 2026

March 2026

 What a change, the rain finally stopped, after recording 90mm rain during February we had just 8mm in March.

Spring is on its way and the spring bulbs look great on the berm.

The forced rhubarb is pushing through ready to eat. This is lovely and pink and stays so when cooked, delicious. We have covers on just a few of the rhubarb crowns and once picked the pots are removed and the plant is left to recover. It will be a few years now before that crown is forced again.





The magnolia is in flower too, just hope we do not get a late frost as that will blacken and destroy those lovely pink flowers.

Lots of seed sowing happening now but as we do not have heated greenhouses they all go in a small heated propagator, temperatures need to get more consistent and warmer so the space in there is getting  tight. Daytime  temperatures in March have fluctuated from minus 0.3 to 19 degrees c and the green house is not much warmer

March 2026

 What a change, the rain finally stopped, after recording 90mm rain during February we had just 8mm in March. Spring is on its way and the s...