Walnut Kitchen Garden

A blog about an ornamental walled kitchen garden makeover

Walnut Kitchen Garden
  • Intro
    • From lawn to kitchen garden
    • My Story
    • Welcome to my gardening blog
    • Remembering my Gardening Hero (Dad)
  • The Garden
    • Gardening Therapy
      • Gardening for your mental health
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 1 Spring
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 2 Summertime
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 3 Autumn
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 4 Winter
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 5 Spring 2021
    • Grow your own
      • Produce coming out of my ears!
      • The Kitchen Garden Produce is Ramping up!
      • Disaster in the Greenhouse
      • How to Grow Potatoes in a Container
      • Tomatoes in November!
      • 2022 – A Bumper Apple Season
      • Food from Flowers – With help from our little friends
      • Our Cherry Tree – It’s the cherry on the cake!
      • Now for something completely different – The Purple Potato Project
      • What’s growing in the kitchen garden 
      • The Greenhouse – My Happy Place
      • Growing Tomatoes from seed – Now is the time!
      • Growing Potatoes
      • Crop Rotation
      • Beans – French, Runner & Borlotti
      • Tomatoes – My first crop
      • Time to bring the chillies in!
      • Out with the Brussels, in with the beetroot
    • Present Day
      • Cosmos – Lost and Found
      • Dierama Plants – Fussy, but worth the trouble!
      • The First Week of July
      • Sentimental Plants – Plants that remind you of others
      • Last week of May
      • Rhododendrons and Azaleas
      • A Red, White & Blue Theme to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles lll
      • Dancing Under Falling Tree Blossom
      • Happy Easter from Walnut Kitchen Garden
      • It’s all go in the garden – Spring has Sprung!
      • Time to chop down Karl Foerster
      • So we did get snow this week!
      • Just as the garden is waking up from its winter slumber…
      • Pulmonaria – Perfect plant for a shady border
      • Demolition in the Garden
      • Another Late Holly Chop
      • First snow of the year – No Gardening this week!
      • The Garden Nurtures the sole
      • New years resolution? Get rid of the weeds!
      • Happy New Year 2023
      • Christmas Tree Celebration
      • Frosty Week – A Winter Wonderland
      • Time to put things to bed in the Winter Greenhouse
      • Gardening with Cats – The Original Stars of Gardeners World
      • Chilli Explosion
      • Heatwave – Monsoon. How the Flowers coped
      • The Big Lavender Chop
      • Wildflowers – My New Border
      • Mid-summer – Full Borders and lots to Harvest
      • Gardening in a Heatwave – Too much Watering!
      • Growing Dahlias – Why have I never grown Dahlias before?
      • Am I turning into a Flower Arranger?
      • Longest Day, Midsummer’s Day & Summer Solstice
      • Jubilee Garden Celebration
      • The Madness of May!
      • Sciatica Makes For A Frustrated Gardener!
      • Catching-Up With The White Garden – Part 2
      • Catching-up with the White Garden – Part 1
      • Muscari
      • Snakes Head Fritillary – ‘Fritillaria meleagris’
      • Early Spring 2022 – Let’s get back to the flowers!
      • Happy Birthday Walnut Kitchen Garden
      • Crocus – The First Vibrant Colour Of The Year
      • Discovering the Beauty of Hellebores
      • Snowdrops
      • When’s the most exciting time in the garden?
      • The Annual Holly Hedge Trim
      • Snow in the Garden. Love it or loathe it?
      • Making Compost
      • Gardening highlights of 2021
      • Late Autumn in the Garden – The big tidy-up
      • Early Autumn in the garden – Harvests, flowers & sunshine
      • Finally Growing Angelica ‘Gigas’
      • The Joys of June
      • Snowing in June?
      • Tulip’s – Rain stopped play!
      • Snow in April!
      • Springtime. The gardens bursting into colour!
    • Transformation
      • The Pizza & Olive Patios
      • Making a Mediterranean Bed
      • Planting the Magnolia border
      • Digging up the lawn
      • Creating a Woodland border
      • Creating the Pathways
      • Gardening on an Ice-Age Glacier
      • The White garden
      • Dreaming of a pond
      • The Fruit trees
      • Greenhouse – take two
      • The Holly and The Ivy
      • The Majestic Walnut Tree
      • Bamboo and Hosta raised beds
      • Creating a walled garden from scratch – The Great Wall
      • Creating a walled garden from scratch – The Shady Wall
      • Lady bricklayer ?
      • Building the raised vegetable beds
      • New garden, new cat!
      • Let’s get stuck into the garden makeover!
    • Weekly Garden Diary
      • Garden Diary – The white borders turned into a white garden!
      • Garden Diary – Beautiful sunsets & blue skies calling!
      • Garden Diary – A week of Remembrance & feeling grateful
      • Garden Diary – Halloween spiders & goodbye Tomatoes
      • Garden Diary – Say goodbye to the lighter nights!
      • Garden Diary – Pink for Girls? Not for this little girl!
      • Garden Diary – Another bizarre weather week
      • Garden Diary – A Week of Highs and Lows
      • Garden Diary – Rain, rain go away, we must be due a sunny day?
      • Garden Diary – Started in the pink, ended with thunder bolts!
      • Garden Diary – Two new Cat Faces in the garden!
      • Garden Diary – Finger Licking Raspberries hands, wave goodbye to the Rhubarb
      • Garden Diary – Tomato bonanza, there’s even enough for soup!
      • Garden Diary – Alfresco cooking with aliens lurking
      • Garden Diary – Insects and harvests
      • Garden Diary – Blue skies at last – but dragons on the horizon!
      • Garden Diary – All the B’s, Bees, Butterflies & Blueberry cake
      • Garden Diary – Figs, Blueberries & Tomatoes, not necessarily together!
      • Garden Diary – Rain, rain, the produce is liking it, but the bees are not!
      • Garden Diary – The Bounty begins and a Moth rescue!
      • Garden Diary – Let’s get you up to date!
    • Wildlife
      • My Wildlife Pond – Dragonflies, Frogs & so much more!
      • The garden is full of life
      • The Frogs have spawned at last – But there’s a problem!
      • The Geese are back in town! – Autumn is around the corner!
      • Hurrah, hurrah, it’s Damselfly Day!
      • The Frogs have Spawned!
      • Outdoor Wildlife Camera
      • Rare White Sparrow
      • Wildlife Finds the Pond
      • Ladybird plague? Hopefully not quite that many!
      • The bees are back in abundance
  • Outings
    • Carpet of Snowdrops at St. Mary’s Coddington
    • Christmas Tree Festival
    • Garden Visits
      • Visiting the Gardens at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons – Part 1
      • Visiting the Gardens at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons. Part 2 – Ponds, Herbs, & Saving Our Heritage
      • Visiting the Gardens at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons. Part 3 – Polytunnels, Compost, The Orchard & Tasting
      • Hodnet Hall Gardens
      • Wollerton Old Hall Garden
      • Dorothy Clive Garden
    • Garden Shows
      • RHS Chelsea Flower Show
        • Visit to The RHS Chelsea flower show 2021 – Part 1
        • RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Part 2 – The Great Pavilion
        • RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Part 3 – Smaller Gardens & Shopping!
  • Reviews
    • Gardeners World, an inspiration!
  • Contact
  • Recipes
    • Fragrant Summer Bean Curry
    • Salmon Pasta with Broad Beans, Soy & Honey
    • Stewed Rhubarb & Yogurt – Breakfast of Gods!
    • Rhubarb Fool – A speedy pudd when unexpected guests turn up
    • Bramley Apple & Calvados Cake
    • Polly’s Simple, Mild Chilli Sauce
    • Super, Simple, Hot Habanero Chilli Sauce
    • Pear & Raspberry Cake – Gluten Free
    • Courgette & Cauliflower Cheese Vegetable Lasagne – You’ll never want a meat one again!
    • Tomato Sauce – A Very Simple Recipe
    • Simply Delicious Cauliflower Cheese – Recipe
    • Brandywine Tomato Salad – It’s too easy to be so delicious!
    • How to Pickle Gherkins – The quick & easy way
    • Cherry and Courgette Cake
    • Super Simple Bean Salad with Mint & Thyme dressing
    • Easy, Purple Sprouting Broccoli Soup
  • Intro
    • From lawn to kitchen garden
    • My Story
    • Welcome to my gardening blog
    • Remembering my Gardening Hero (Dad)
  • The Garden
    • Gardening Therapy
      • Gardening for your mental health
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 1 Spring
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 2 Summertime
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 3 Autumn
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 4 Winter
      • Gardening through a pandemic – Part 5 Spring 2021
    • Grow your own
      • Produce coming out of my ears!
      • The Kitchen Garden Produce is Ramping up!
      • Disaster in the Greenhouse
      • How to Grow Potatoes in a Container
      • Tomatoes in November!
      • 2022 – A Bumper Apple Season
      • Food from Flowers – With help from our little friends
      • Our Cherry Tree – It’s the cherry on the cake!
      • Now for something completely different – The Purple Potato Project
      • What’s growing in the kitchen garden 
      • The Greenhouse – My Happy Place
      • Growing Tomatoes from seed – Now is the time!
      • Growing Potatoes
      • Crop Rotation
      • Beans – French, Runner & Borlotti
      • Tomatoes – My first crop
      • Time to bring the chillies in!
      • Out with the Brussels, in with the beetroot
    • Present Day
      • Cosmos – Lost and Found
      • Dierama Plants – Fussy, but worth the trouble!
      • The First Week of July
      • Sentimental Plants – Plants that remind you of others
      • Last week of May
      • Rhododendrons and Azaleas
      • A Red, White & Blue Theme to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles lll
      • Dancing Under Falling Tree Blossom
      • Happy Easter from Walnut Kitchen Garden
      • It’s all go in the garden – Spring has Sprung!
      • Time to chop down Karl Foerster
      • So we did get snow this week!
      • Just as the garden is waking up from its winter slumber…
      • Pulmonaria – Perfect plant for a shady border
      • Demolition in the Garden
      • Another Late Holly Chop
      • First snow of the year – No Gardening this week!
      • The Garden Nurtures the sole
      • New years resolution? Get rid of the weeds!
      • Happy New Year 2023
      • Christmas Tree Celebration
      • Frosty Week – A Winter Wonderland
      • Time to put things to bed in the Winter Greenhouse
      • Gardening with Cats – The Original Stars of Gardeners World
      • Chilli Explosion
      • Heatwave – Monsoon. How the Flowers coped
      • The Big Lavender Chop
      • Wildflowers – My New Border
      • Mid-summer – Full Borders and lots to Harvest
      • Gardening in a Heatwave – Too much Watering!
      • Growing Dahlias – Why have I never grown Dahlias before?
      • Am I turning into a Flower Arranger?
      • Longest Day, Midsummer’s Day & Summer Solstice
      • Jubilee Garden Celebration
      • The Madness of May!
      • Sciatica Makes For A Frustrated Gardener!
      • Catching-Up With The White Garden – Part 2
      • Catching-up with the White Garden – Part 1
      • Muscari
      • Snakes Head Fritillary – ‘Fritillaria meleagris’
      • Early Spring 2022 – Let’s get back to the flowers!
      • Happy Birthday Walnut Kitchen Garden
      • Crocus – The First Vibrant Colour Of The Year
      • Discovering the Beauty of Hellebores
      • Snowdrops
      • When’s the most exciting time in the garden?
      • The Annual Holly Hedge Trim
      • Snow in the Garden. Love it or loathe it?
      • Making Compost
      • Gardening highlights of 2021
      • Late Autumn in the Garden – The big tidy-up
      • Early Autumn in the garden – Harvests, flowers & sunshine
      • Finally Growing Angelica ‘Gigas’
      • The Joys of June
      • Snowing in June?
      • Tulip’s – Rain stopped play!
      • Snow in April!
      • Springtime. The gardens bursting into colour!
    • Transformation
      • The Pizza & Olive Patios
      • Making a Mediterranean Bed
      • Planting the Magnolia border
      • Digging up the lawn
      • Creating a Woodland border
      • Creating the Pathways
      • Gardening on an Ice-Age Glacier
      • The White garden
      • Dreaming of a pond
      • The Fruit trees
      • Greenhouse – take two
      • The Holly and The Ivy
      • The Majestic Walnut Tree
      • Bamboo and Hosta raised beds
      • Creating a walled garden from scratch – The Great Wall
      • Creating a walled garden from scratch – The Shady Wall
      • Lady bricklayer ?
      • Building the raised vegetable beds
      • New garden, new cat!
      • Let’s get stuck into the garden makeover!
    • Weekly Garden Diary
      • Garden Diary – The white borders turned into a white garden!
      • Garden Diary – Beautiful sunsets & blue skies calling!
      • Garden Diary – A week of Remembrance & feeling grateful
      • Garden Diary – Halloween spiders & goodbye Tomatoes
      • Garden Diary – Say goodbye to the lighter nights!
      • Garden Diary – Pink for Girls? Not for this little girl!
      • Garden Diary – Another bizarre weather week
      • Garden Diary – A Week of Highs and Lows
      • Garden Diary – Rain, rain go away, we must be due a sunny day?
      • Garden Diary – Started in the pink, ended with thunder bolts!
      • Garden Diary – Two new Cat Faces in the garden!
      • Garden Diary – Finger Licking Raspberries hands, wave goodbye to the Rhubarb
      • Garden Diary – Tomato bonanza, there’s even enough for soup!
      • Garden Diary – Alfresco cooking with aliens lurking
      • Garden Diary – Insects and harvests
      • Garden Diary – Blue skies at last – but dragons on the horizon!
      • Garden Diary – All the B’s, Bees, Butterflies & Blueberry cake
      • Garden Diary – Figs, Blueberries & Tomatoes, not necessarily together!
      • Garden Diary – Rain, rain, the produce is liking it, but the bees are not!
      • Garden Diary – The Bounty begins and a Moth rescue!
      • Garden Diary – Let’s get you up to date!
    • Wildlife
      • My Wildlife Pond – Dragonflies, Frogs & so much more!
      • The garden is full of life
      • The Frogs have spawned at last – But there’s a problem!
      • The Geese are back in town! – Autumn is around the corner!
      • Hurrah, hurrah, it’s Damselfly Day!
      • The Frogs have Spawned!
      • Outdoor Wildlife Camera
      • Rare White Sparrow
      • Wildlife Finds the Pond
      • Ladybird plague? Hopefully not quite that many!
      • The bees are back in abundance
  • Outings
    • Carpet of Snowdrops at St. Mary’s Coddington
    • Christmas Tree Festival
    • Garden Visits
      • Visiting the Gardens at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons – Part 1
      • Visiting the Gardens at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons. Part 2 – Ponds, Herbs, & Saving Our Heritage
      • Visiting the Gardens at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons. Part 3 – Polytunnels, Compost, The Orchard & Tasting
      • Hodnet Hall Gardens
      • Wollerton Old Hall Garden
      • Dorothy Clive Garden
    • Garden Shows
      • RHS Chelsea Flower Show
        • Visit to The RHS Chelsea flower show 2021 – Part 1
        • RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Part 2 – The Great Pavilion
        • RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Part 3 – Smaller Gardens & Shopping!
  • Reviews
    • Gardeners World, an inspiration!
  • Contact
  • Recipes
    • Fragrant Summer Bean Curry
    • Salmon Pasta with Broad Beans, Soy & Honey
    • Stewed Rhubarb & Yogurt – Breakfast of Gods!
    • Rhubarb Fool – A speedy pudd when unexpected guests turn up
    • Bramley Apple & Calvados Cake
    • Polly’s Simple, Mild Chilli Sauce
    • Super, Simple, Hot Habanero Chilli Sauce
    • Pear & Raspberry Cake – Gluten Free
    • Courgette & Cauliflower Cheese Vegetable Lasagne – You’ll never want a meat one again!
    • Tomato Sauce – A Very Simple Recipe
    • Simply Delicious Cauliflower Cheese – Recipe
    • Brandywine Tomato Salad – It’s too easy to be so delicious!
    • How to Pickle Gherkins – The quick & easy way
    • Cherry and Courgette Cake
    • Super Simple Bean Salad with Mint & Thyme dressing
    • Easy, Purple Sprouting Broccoli Soup
  • Greenhouse
    Grow your own

    Disaster in the Greenhouse

    14 May 2023 / 0 Comments

    Well I had such a lovely morning planned out. One of my favourite jobs of the year, planting the tomatoes in the greenhouse, when disaster struck! The garden apprentice (otherwise known as husband) was with me, as he has to help me with the heavy bags of compost to replenish last years. He said, ‘what’s that weed?” I started to pull it, then gently started to uncover it’s roots. I said, “it looks like a potato”. More uncovering in sued. The gardening apprentice said, that’s no potato! We dug deeper and finally realised with dread, that it was Ground Elder!!! Or it’s rather unpronounceable Latin name Aegopodium Podagraio. I think…

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    8 January 2023 / 0 Comments

    What new years resolutions have you made? And do you think you’re going to stick to them? My only thought for a resolution, is to try and get back on top of the weeds this year! No Weeds in the Flower Borders I’ve honestly never really had a problem with weeds, until the last couple of years. This is mainly because I use a mulch of bark on my flower borders. It’s something I’ve been doing for as far back as I can remember and it really works! I only do it every other year and this is the year, as it’s rotted down to the point where you can…

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