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  Check out these colour combos

  Tutti Fruit on 16 Aug 2010 at 10:09 AM

  Here you can see my summer squash (patty pan 'Sunburst) trained up a bamboo 'tee-pee' structure together with runner bean 'Saint George'. The runners won the race to the top (no surprise there) but the squash are making a sure and steady progress. I first became aware of vertically... Read More...

  Comments: 1 Tags: RHS Garden Wisley, Model Vegetable Garden, potager, lettuce, beetroot, veg, flower, bean, herb, squash, kohl rabi, edible, patty pan
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  Potager of fruity hues

  Tutti Fruit on 20 Jun 2010 at 06:22 PM

  Fancy learning some Norwegian? Here's a great expression for you... 'TING TAR TID' (tid - pronounced 'tee') Remember those tiny seedlings and all that bare earth? I was fortunate to spend 7 days away working at the Chelsea Flower Show and when I came back the whole thing had just... Read More...

  Comments: 6 Tags: trainee, RHS Garden Wisley, Fruit, Model Vegetable Garden, potager, apple, trained tree form, stepover, vegetable, lettuce, cabbage:potager, chamomile, veg, flower, wild strawberry, turnip, pea, bean, herb, ting tar tid, visit
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  Pinks and greens, a sight to be seen

  Tutti Fruit on 25 Apr 2010 at 09:13 PM

  The apple stepovers are now coming into their own, putting on a show that defies the barren soil beneath them (it's been so dry I've held off seed sowing). One of the earlier apples here is 'Katy' (syn. 'Katya') a Swedish variety, producing lovely bright red apples. I'm happy... Read More...

  Comments: 0 Tags: trainee, RHS Garden Wisley, Model Vegetable Garden, potager, apple, stepover, lettuce, evolution spiral, parasitic wasp, blossom, irrigation, cabbage
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  Is this the new string theory?

  Tutti Fruit on 09 Apr 2010 at 08:44 PM

  ..or just the work of a rather large spider? perhaps it's just my own 'Theory of Everything' potager related... Well...ok, you're right, it's none of these things. In putting together this potager design I realised it was important to keep it simple (unlike String Theory ?) while... Read More...

  Comments: 1 Tags: trainee, RHS Garden Wisley, Model Vegetable Garden, potager, trained tree form, stepover, potato, fruit', vegetable, sowing pattern, soil, lettuce, shallot, string, planting plan
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  Stepover makeover!

  Tutti Fruit on 28 Mar 2010 at 04:11 PM

  This is how the potager looked back in February. Box hedges dividing the plot( Buxus - no record of species or cultivars) - that one on the middle-left is completely out of proportion with the others. These plants can work beautifully in a formal potager, providing all year round interest. Also they... Read More...

  Comments: 1 Tags: trainee, Fruit, Model Vegetable Garden, potager, apple, trained tree form, stepover
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  Trainee takes on Potager

  Tutti Fruit on 17 Mar 2010 at 11:36 AM

  Hello! I'm Sigrid a Trainee on the Fruit Department at Wisley and this year as part of my project work I get to re-design, plant up and look after the Potager, located in the Model Veg Garden. It's an exciting opportunity to create something hopefully both productive and aesthetically interesting... Read More...

  Comments: 1 Tags: trainee, RHS Garden Wisley, Fruit, Model Vegetable Garden, potager, coursework
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  Sunshine at Wisley, spring is here.

  Jim Gardiner on 02 Mar 2010 at 05:30 PM

  Well, with a little bit of sunshine the garden is a different place. It has been buzzing with visitors, coming out to enjoy the warm rays, just like the crocuses that open up with bright light and the winter stems that look amazing in the sunlight. It strikes me that we've got it all right now. The... Read More...

  Comments: 0 Tags: Bowes Lyon Rose Garden, Model Fruit Garden, Grow your Own, model vegetable garden, spring, battleston hill, rhs garden wisley, camellia, march, potager