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01/08/2008 Welcome to Hob Green Gardens 2010

Welcome to the gardens here at Hob Green hotel; the gardens surround the hotel which includes a large kitchen garden. Historically, kitchen gardens seldom appeared before 1650 and are rarely seen after 1950. In those 300 years kitchen gardens have dramatically changed, due in part to the historical and social pressures put on them ending with World War 1. The Great War had a vast impact on country houses; apart from the fact of losing labour to the trenches, when the war finally finished the returning men found factory work better paid. Today kitchen gardens have been given a new lease of life – people like to walk around them and actually see where how the vegetables they eat are grown. The Kitchen Garden at Hob Green is now providing vegetables and cut flowers for the hotel instead of the country house owner.

<>pAutumn 2009
After another eventful season it is now time to start planning for next year, over the autumn and winter seeds and bulbs will be chosen for next year’s displays. Almost everyone you speak to believes that the summer is the really busy time for gardeners but the winter is the time the groundwork is done for the following year. Jobs include digging all the vegetable and cut flower beds, pruning all the fruit, pruning all the shrubs/roses and of course we have the big job of clearing the leaves up. Speaking of leaves I would advise anyone to collect their leaves to rot down into leaf mould, it’s a valuable soil conditioner and does not cost anything!

The summer on the whole has not been as hot as we would have liked. We have had a very productive year in the garden with many of the vegetables and flowers exceeding all our expectations. The bean wall and arch has been a success both in the amount of beans produced as well as being visually exciting. The bean that impressed me the most this year was the French Bean ‘Cherokee trail of tears’, it has a great taste as well as being a heavy cropper. The onions did well this year and they were all grown from seed, this was sown in January and was out in the cold frames by mid February, we then planted out as soon as the risk of serious frost had passed. I think this is the best way to get a good crop of large onions however it is time consuming. The fruit has done well this year and I am not sure if it’s down to the weather or maybe the bees being in the garden. This year we seem to have had excessive bumble bees in the garden which is great knowing that they are in decline nationally. It was also god to see the new bird nesting boxes being used for the first time and it will be an aim to get more around the garden to help us out on the pest control problem.

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