Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: January

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.

Friday, January 24, 2025

January

Another year, lets see what happens in the garden in 2025.

Still harvesting carrots and parsnips, they were very slow to get started but now we have plenty to see us through the winter.

There are no leeks though. Very poor germination and those that did failed to grow.

The chard is very sparse at the moment, the early frost and snow, before Christmas stopped that. But when the weather warms it should start to grow again giving us lovely fresh leaves until (depending on how quickly the weather warms) they finally go to seed.

A big disappointment is that there is no purple sprouting broccoli , one of my favourite early vegetables.

As with the other brassicas last year they failed to grow.

Hopefully 2025 will be a good year for growing.

In the garden now is plenty to see and give hope for the year.

Snowdrops a plenty are coming up and some special ones are really interesting and other flowers open now are: