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, June 7, 2026

May

 After a very dry April, May did not produce much of the needed rain.

Just 14mm fell in May, it was also very hot and plants were shrivelling up, much too soon for that heat.

It is now 7th June and we have had more rain than all of May.

Along with the heat in May the roses have been flowering well and look stunning this year.


                                                Tottering by Gently

                                                    Chandos Beauty with a wonderful scent

Joanna Elise

    

                                                Unknown red


Mme Alfred Carrier

                                                                   Anniversary rose

Also the asparagus has been growing well picking about 2kg every day. The crop can only be harvested for 6-8 weeks so it will soon come to an end.

We now have the rain, a lot cooler though so hopefully there will still be plenty to see when we open our garden for the National Garden Scheme at the end of the month, this will be our 10th year of opening.





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