Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: April

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.

Monday, April 21, 2025

April

A hot dry April and there is a lot of blossom on the trees and bushes.

The weather has been dry and not too windy so hopefully the pollinators have been busy and the blossom is pollinated so that we get a good harvest of apples and pears, plums and cherries, blueberries and apricots later in the year.

The winter rains have helped the trees and perennial plants with established roots so the hot dry spring has not been a problem. As long as we do get some rain now!