The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950: How Produce Was Grown and How It Was Used

by Leeds Symposium on Food History 1995

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect ‘grown your own’ environments and ensured that many households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also natural medicines. A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitchen garden and its development over three and a half centuries. This delightful book recounts an important part of our historic houses and their national heritage – to be enjoyed by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

209 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

Reviews

[Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Superb

[Mr Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely one for the purist. Charts the development of the country house kitchen garden from 1600. One for the vegetable and herb nerds.