Walled Garden

The Walled Garden was of great importance in enabling the house and the estate to functuion as a largely self-sufficient unit.  Home grown fruit, vegetables and herbs meat that there was no reliance on getting deliveries of foods from outside of the estate.  Tesco didn't do home delivery in those days!

The production of vegetable from the walled garden would have been continuous with a supply of the wide variety of vegetables throughout the year.  This would have involved the thoughtful planting and cultivation of 'early' and 'late' varieties of the same vegetables.

To make sure this produce had the best opportunity to flourish, it was the job of a young member of garden staff to sweep any seeds off the wall around the garden.