The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950

Download or read book The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950 written by C. Anne Wilson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect ‘grow your own’ environments and ensured that 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 of 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.