Kitchen Garden

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

LAURA TWEEDALE FROM EAST CHESHIRE

This month we meet Laura who is an author, blogger and passionate about living sustainably and growing healthy food for her family.

Do you have an allotment or veg patch in your garden?

We have a small, west-facing garden, measuring 8x12m (26x39ft), in a suburban town in East Cheshire. In a cottage garden style, we grow our edibles cheek-by-jowl alongside our perennials and cut flowers, the chickens and the children, filling every space in the hope of providing a garden that is both beautiful and productive.

How long have you been growing veg?

I’ve been growing organically here for the past eight years, but I was raised by a family of passionate gardeners, so gardening has been a part of my entire life in some guise.

My late grandfather was an allotmenteer

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