While we work to gradually reopen our places, the walled kitchen garden will remain closed until further notice.
Arlington's Victorian walled kitchen garden
Normally the walled kitchen garden would be taking shape by now, with the team sowing and planting a variety of fruit and veg to be used in the tea-room and offered for sale to visitors later in the year. However, preparing the walled kitchen garden is too big a task for one gardener, so a unique plan was devised to make use of the space and bring life to the beds.
Unusual times call for a new plan of action
Three families live onsite at Arlington Court in staff accommodation. They have each been given a plot in the kitchen garden to work on with their families and have already started work rotavating the soil and sowing seeds.
This is probably the first time that amateur gardeners have been given the chance to shape the garden at Arlington. The remaining gardener, Beccy Hanson, thinks it will be a surprising change for regular visitors when they are able to return.
