| Area | Aims / themes / strategies for area. | Mar-19 |
| Gate borders | Umbles theme. Plants that can be used for flower arrangements and wreaths. Plus a clump climbing green beans to illustrate story stompers jack and the bean stalk. | buy in 2 bulk bags of top soil and apply to the gate borders. |
| natural kitchen play area | Provide young children with a multi sensory natural play experience. Setting for story stompers. | Install beanstalk… |
| Beds 1-8 of the upper four crop rotation and bed 9 perennial veg bed. | Theme for 2019 – Red Veg. Aims :- demonstration beds for how to grow attractive unusual varieties or red veg. Duel purpose plants as edible and ornamental. | |
| bed 1 Roots overflow bed | Direct sow Beetroot Solist Red | |
| bed 2 leaf greens | ||
| bed 3 salads and garlic | direct sow mid March (successional till Aug), Salad Bijou (red), Mustard red frills, lettuce Moonred | |
| bed 4 brassica seed bed | direct sow into seedbed late March / early April, Kale:- Nero di Toscana, Midnight Sun, Buttonhole Starmaker, Kale Scarlet. Cabbage – January King, Cauliflower – ‘All Year Round’. | |
| bed 5 Roots | Mid march direct sow spring onions North Holland Blood Red, plant Red Arrow onion sets | |
| bed 6 Brassicas | UGH sow leek seeds Northern Lights in pots, and plant out into this bed when pencil thick. Kohlrabi delicacy Purple sow in UGH in seed trays, plant out when 5-6 leaves. | |
| bed 7 Legumes | sow Pea ‘Shiraz’ (Mangetout) directly into bed in late March. Cover with chicken wire to protect from birds and foxes. From sowing time it takes about 12-13 weeks to harvest – Mid June onwards. | |
| bed 8 Cucurbitaceae/ Cucurbit bed | ||
| bed 9 – Perennial veg bed | Oca was stored over winter in the UCH. Plant out mid March. | |
| Free standing Beans bed in front of UGH | ||
| Kitchen garden / seating area | How to plan a kitchen garden, and harvest the produce from it throughout the year. | Modules – Salad onions parsley, tomato, Direct sow Spinach, Beetroot, carrot Plant out – Shallots, Potatoes in bin, Salad |
| Green roofs | show how to reduce run off and collect rainwater | |
| Woodland area as a wildlife habitat. | Wildlife habitat providing bug hoel, dead hedge, stag beetle stack and signage plus tree identification signs. | |
| Woodland soft fruit growing area | Show how to grow soft fruit, & how to, prune, support, take cuttings and harvest. | Mulch around fruit bushes with compost, well rotted manure. Move blueberries in their Ericaceous compost / planters to woodland area and provide with irrigation. Buy one of each:- new red desert gooseberry bush,white currant and black currant bush, and plant out i the woodland. |
| Woodland – Top fruit – i.e. fruit grown on trees rather than bushes | Show how to grow top fruit, & how to, prune, support, take cuttings for grafting and harvest. | |
| Top fruit growing in the herb garden. | Show how to grow top fruit, & how to, prune, support, take cuttings for grafting and harvest. | |
| Soft Fruit growing in the herb garden | how to grow, propagate and harvest strawberries | |
| Top fruit growing in the upper garden. | Show how to harvest and use to make jams. | |
| Grape vine in the upper greenhouses. | Show how to grow, prune, maintain good health, take cuttings from and harvest. | |
| Fern bank | Show how to grow ferns, (spore bearing, shade loving plants. Educational resource for plant evolution. | Extend leaky hose to upper fern bank. Keep ferns weeded |
| Bog garden | Grow a range of plants that like to grow in boggy conditions | keep weeded |
| wildlife pond | maintain a wildlife pond which is an important habitat and breeding ground for beneficial garden insects and other wildlife | plant meadow sweet around the pond. (Plants from the gate borders) |
| Perennial meadow | Maintain a perennial meadow as attractive visual feature seen from the front gates. Good resource for pollinating insects and wildlife. | weed out unwanted plants, thistles, couch grass, horsetail, bindweed, burdock. |
| Raspberry bed | To grow raspberries | |
| Island bed infront of UGH | ||
| Tomato / ?Solanaceae bed | sow in UGH Cordon tomatoes in modules :-Golden Crown, Green Zebra, Blakc Russian, Amish Pasle, and Cape Gooseberry | |
| Education bed | Vegetables and flowers that the education team want to grow for school sessions etc. | sowing outdoors veg. |
| Squash / Cucurbita bed | grow 3 varieties of squash, 2 summer squash and one winter squash. | |
| Gherkin bed | ||
| Free standing bed in front of UGH | Retail annuals display – Cutting Flowers. Ammi, Verbena, Cleome, Cosmos | |
| Greenwood working area | ||
| Upper Greenhouses 1. BPCG produce for growing under glass. | 600 Annuals, 200 Cannas, 60 Sunflowers | |
| Upper Greenhouses 2. BPCG plants for planting out into our garden. | Kitchen Garden: Beetroot, Spring Cabbage, Spinach, | |
| Upper Greenhouses 3. BPCG plants for retail. | ||
| Herb garden | ||
| Sensory Bed | ||
| Hot border | Mulch, reduce Beschorneria yuccoides,start Cannas in UGH | |
| Cold frames | ||
| Passive greenhouses | start to feed diluted SM3 once they have 4 leaves | |
| Deck planters | plant oca at one end and Paselia at the other. Could be nice to grow some of our bush tomatoes here too. | |
| Oudolf border | Final clear and mulch | |
| Dye stock bed | help Dianne keep the area weeded, and the bed mulched in spring and autumn. | |
| Oriental veg bed | grow more brassicas alongside Chen Maii’s pack choi. | |
| Lower four crop rotation – 4 beds | ||
| Bed 1 brassicas | ||
| Bed 2 legumes | fill gapes in rows of broadbeans | |
| Bed 3 roots | Mid March sow carrots, Dragon Purple, and Red Lisse di Meassx, between rows of garlic and shallotes. At bottom end of bed sow parsnip ‘Tender and True’ | |
| Bed 4 Solanaceae potato bed, and yacon (another root veg) | chit seed potatoes Varieties:- Purple Majesty (main crop), Apache (main crop) ,Anya (main crop) , Pink Fur Apple (salad potato). Plant out yacon which has over wintered in pots in UGH. | |
| 4 crop beds companion plants | grow a range of companion plants to plant amongst veg beds to repel common pests | |