Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: April showers!!

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, May 3, 2026

April showers!!

Well the April showers did not put in an appearance this year.

After the very wet February, 90mm here, March was very dry only 8mm.

Then April came but no showers and another 8mm fell in the month.

The water buts are getting empty now so we do need more rain to fill them up before the summer.

Good news is that after nearly 10 years my tree peony has finally flowered, beautiful pink.

Lots of other things growing and coming quite early. We started harvesting asparagus early April, a couple of weeks earlier than expected. the daffodils came and went, the bluebells are now going over and alliums flowering well.

The Lily of the Valley has been exceptional this year and the smell is wonderful.

Also the tulips were great.

We have been busy, the potatoes are growing well so all being earthed up now.

Broad beans growing well, broccoli and cabbage in the raised beds and sweet peas are starting to climb.

A new crop being tried this year, Agretti, lets see how that fares.

Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden