Harry Dobson Victorian Kitchen Garden

Harry James Dodson (11 September 1919 - 25 July 2005) was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the BBC television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences. 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. 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 Victorian Kitchen Garden was so successful that it spawned three other BBC series - The Victorian Kitchen, The Victorian Flower Garden and The Wartime Kitchen and Garden. But head man at Chilton Gardens in Berkshire, Harry Dodson, has allowed millions of armchair visitors to share his exceptional experience, first in the BBC series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, then as The Victorian Kitchen used his produce, and again in a new series starting at the end of October, The Victorian Flower Garden. It follows a master gardener, Harry Dodson, through his yearlong attempt to revive the long-fallow walled garden of Chilton Lodge, a country estate in Berkshire, using entirely Victorian.

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. Harry Dodson Edit Profile horticulturist Harry James Dodson was an English gardener who became a celebrity as a result of the British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which featured his professional expertise and his reminiscences.

Snapshots The Victorian Kitchen Gardens episodes past, present and future. Harry Dodson at the northern wall of The Victorian Kitchen Garden in 1989 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).

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