The Organic Walled Garden

Close to the Main House is the walled garden with herbaceous borders around its edges and poly-tunnels for early growing of crops.

Although the garden does not aim for self-sufficiency, huge amounts of vegetables are grown from early spring until the first autumn frosts, providing a much appreciated supply for the kitchen.

The work inside the garden, carried out by students and an almost continuous flow of volunteers from all over the world,  involves preparing the soil for planting: weeding, digging, manuring and composting. Later comes the planting out of young seedlings, watering, caring and harvesting.

For those with a love of flowers there is plenty of work to be done maintaining the colourful herbaceous borders both in the walled garden and in front of the main house.

To read about the experience of coming to the garden as a WWOOFing volunteer, click here...

WWOOFing stands for Word Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, an organisation which helps people find placements as volunteers.