A 1987 BBC series that recreated a Victorian kitchen garden at Leverton, Berkshire, with horticultural expert Peter Thoday and master gardener Harry Dodson. The series won an Ivor Novello award and spawned three sequels and accompanying books. "The Victorian Kitchen Garden" is a 13-part British television series produced in 1987 by Keith Sheather for BBC2, based on an idea by Jennifer Davies, who later became associate producer.
It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Leverton, Berkshire (near Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire). The presenter was the horticultural lecturer, Peter Thoday (1934-2023), the master gardener was. The Victorian Kitchen Garden: With Harry Dodson, Peter Thoday, Alison McKensie, Stephen Bull.
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 - Funeral of Harry Dodson Sean's Journal 🏴 Sean James Cameron 9.5K views 2 years ago. Harry Dodson recreated a working kitchen garden of the Victorian era in the Chilton Walled Gardens for a 13-part BBC series. Learn about his life, career and legacy as the Head Gardener on the Chilton Estate for 50 years.
The Beginning 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. 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.
Harry tries out a Victorian invention, the 'Cucumber Glass', designed to help gardeners grow straight cucumbers. Meanwhile, the garden's fig crop is ready for picking, as is one of the garden's apple crop. Harry checks the peach crop for earwig blight and demonstrates the methods Victorian gardeners used to deal with them.