Victorian Kitchen Garden Episode 1

The Victorian Kitchen Garden - Funeral of Harry Dodson Sean James Cameron 🏴 8.2K views 1 year ago. In this final episode we see how the early Victorians discovered a way to produce rhubarb suitable for a dinner table delicacy. Alison is in the greenhouse making garlands using holly, ivy and moss which were used as Christmas decorations.

Stored fruit and root vegetables are brought out and prepared for the dinner table. Harry Dodson on how they lived in Victorian Times growing their own fruit and vegetables. 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. 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.

Once every big house had its walled kitchen garden. In an age before imports and deep freezers, the head gardener and his staff had to supply the household throughout the year. Today most walled gardens lie derelict.

To uncover the secrets of the great Victorian gardeners, restoration was begun on a kitchen garden in Berkshire. With the help of a rich legacy of gardening manuals, plans were. Today most walled gardens lie derelict.

To uncover the secrets of the great Victorian gardeners, restoration was begun on a kitchen garden in Berkshire. 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 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.