History of the walled garden

The walled, kitchen garden is about 240 years old.  This garden was originally designed by Lancelot Capability Brown, the great 18^th century landscape architect. Brown was commissioned to design a new layout of Brocklesby Park in 1771. The construction of the walled garden began in 1773 and took around 3 years to complete.  This 8 acre site, including buildings and glasshouses, has gone through a number of changes since that time. The magnificent18^th century vinery was rebuilt in 1936.  In 2006-2007 work started to recreate the original ‘Capability Brown’ layout and the walled, kitchen garden has been totally re-landscaped.  After this work was completed the whole of the walled, kitchen garden was licenced by the Soil Association as an organic garden.  A ‘no-dig’ approach for growing root crops, legumes and brassicas in beds was then implemented.                       

The current approach to gardening in the walled, kitchen garden is still the same. Our Soil Association, organic ethos has not changed and has been very beneficial to increasing the garden’s biodiversity. A plethora of beneficial wildlife inhabits the gardens and this compliments our chemical-free style of gardening. We have many frogs, toads and birds which are brilliant ‘slug-stoppers’, and also masses of beneficial insects which help pollinate crops and predate on pests such as aphids.

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