The green house is the engine room of the garden.

It has two sections, an ‘inner sanctum’ which protects over wintering plants, and many trays of seeds in the spring. In the summer aubergines and cucumbers, and climbing squashes are planted in the bed in there. The outer greenhouse area is planted with tomatoes in the early summer, which in a good year, fruit well.

All vegetables in the veg patch are grown from seed and pleasure is taken in planting them out in attractive arrangements, sticking of course, to the principle of rotating each plot through brassicas, roots, alium and beans. It's usually possible to get 2 crops out of most of the veg beds, provided the broad beans can be harvested in time, to get in the sweet corn following