Alison Victorian Kitchen Garden

The Victorian Kitchen Garden: With Harry Dodson, Peter Thoday, Alison McKensie, Dennis Hopkins. Television series following the restoration of a largely derelict walled garden at Chilton Lodge, Berkshire. The aim was to work the garden as it would have been in the Victorian era, using plants and practices from this period.

Each episode follows a month of the year, and shows the tasks undertaken. The series began in the largely derelict walled garden at Chilton Lodge, and followed Dodson and his assistant, Alison, as they recreated the working kitchen garden. The work involved many repairs, from replanting the box (Buxus) edging and replacing the gravel walks, to reglazing the cold frames and repairing the Victorian wood-framed, brick.

Helen Rosner writes about "The Victorian Kitchen Garden," a documentary miniseries produced, in 1987, for the BBC, about a master gardener's attempt to revive the garden of a country estate. It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire, although at the time the series was made Chilton Foliat was in the county of Berkshire. The presenter was the horticultural lecturer, Peter Thoday, the master gardener was Harry Dodson and the director was Keith Sheather.

The Victorian Kitchen Garden: Part One 43 ished product is not always an easy watch. Dodson's dignified char- isma, Thoday's boyish charm and Alison's shy smile glimmer through the aspic of soft '80s sunshine, layering nostalgia upon nostalgia. Alison McKensie.

Self: The Victorian Kitchen GardenSuggest an edit or add missing content. The Victorian Kitchen Garden was a 13-part television series produced in 1987 for BBC Two (Must see. Mike).

It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire. The presenter was the horticultural lecturer, Peter Thoday, the master gardener was Harry Dodson. This wonderful series goes behind the high redbrick walls of Chilton Foliat in Berkshire, where Harry Dodson carefully recreates a traditional Victorian kitchen garden.

Using traditional tools Harry painstakingly transformed the weed-choked ground into a gardener's and cook's delight solving many horticultural mysteries along the way and showing how gardeners dealt with pests and how they grew. The Victorian Kitchen Garden is a 13-part BBC series, in which Harry Dodson recreated a working kitchen garden of the Victorian era in the Chilton Walled Gardens.