Kitchen garden
I'm Gavin Roberts, and I am the head kitchen gardener at Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire. Our beautiful two-acre walled kitchen garden was restored in 2007. It supplies fresh seasonal produce to our farm shop and cafe.
The kitchen garden is also home to florist, Rachel Petheram’s, cutting garden and we host many school children over the year, numerous visitors as well as our Cooking in the Kitchen Garden cooking demos. It’s a busy vibrant place.
Aside from harvesting, we have been sowing the last of this year’s spinach and chard. Green manure has also gone in where the potatoes have come out. Read more...
Our Kitchen Garden is just a two-minute walk from our Farm Shop, and the path to and fro has been well-trodden as we deliver our excellent harvests to veg manager Sarah. Read more...
The warmth of May has been a little too warm at times, giving us problems with watering as we have to avoid scorching the plants in the heat and bright light. Read more. . .
After March’s wet weather, it was good to get a dry spell from Easter onwards. We have been very busy sowing and transplanting. Read more. . .
Volunteers, Brian and Sue Kirby, spent a day in the kitchen garden mulching and pricking out. Read more. . .
February has been a month of planning, preparing and propagation. Time outdoors in the unforgiving winter chill has been spent clearing spent crops, taking the runners off strawberries and covering a polytunnel. Read more. . .