Plan & plant your kitchen garden Part 2: build your plot

Head gardener Lucy Chamberlain manages a walled kitchen garden within a 100-acre estate. Inspired by its success, she has followed the key design principles in her own, much smaller garden, to create a beautiful and highly productive fruit and vegetable plot.

The addition of any fruit or veg to a garden gets a huge tick in my book. My hope is that last month, fuelled by part one of this series, you put pen to paper and drew up a design for your dream edible plot. Now it’s time to take those plans, whether grand or modest, and get started on building your kitchen garden. In this issue I’ll explain how to start adding all the fundamental areas to your plot, including the all-important growing