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. 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. For many people the walled.
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 PART TWO: CHILTON REVISITED SANDRA LAWRENCE Clever photography in The Victorian Kitchen Garden hides two secrets. The first is splendid: Chilton Foliat, the country estate used for the BBC's classic 1987 experiment, which recreated a traditional walled garden under the benevolent eye of retired head gardener Harry Dodson, actually boasts two walled gardens, one.
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. 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.
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.
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. 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), [1] the master gardener was.