Our back garden is really a back yard. The house is old – built in 1800 and Grade II listed – and sits on a rocky shore.
So, our back garden like some others has very little soil and at some point was laid with herringbone brick and paving stones at various levels.
So to create a kitchen potager in such an environment needs imagination – and perseverance!
We bought four veg boxes in flat-pack kits from Harrod Horticultural, with liners. These we filled with farm soil delivered in one cubic metre bags to the street. The soil had to carried by hand, a bucket at a time, up 14 steps to be emptied into the boxes.
Still it’s been worth it with four very productive and easy to manage raised beds.
