Growing your own fruit and veg can be very rewarding. A delicious array of homegrown crops of root veg and salad leaves will add nutrition to meals and put a smile on your face. We are here to assist you in creating an impressive looking selection of edible produce as beautiful as it is productive.
The benefits of having an edible garden are many. You can enjoy better tasting food, improve your families health, reduce your environmental impact and get outdoor exercise. It’s a win win situation.
Harvesting your very own crop of fruit from your garden is one of life’s pleasures. A fruit themed garden is possible for gardens of any size. Conditions need to be right for different fruit bearing plants. For example fruit trees don’t like wet soil but prefer loamy soil. If space within beds comes at a premium, make use of your vertical surfaces such as walls or fences with espalier apples, plums, fig trees or grape vines. Edible berry bushes can be used as a specimen plant or used as a hedges. Whilst tomatoes and strawberries are easy to grow in containers and hanging baskets.
Growing a selection of leafy greens and root crops will yield a harvest from mid summer to mid winter. Create beds of rich good soil feeding it with compost. Making an edible garden look as good as it tastes by planting borders with sways of colour and texture. Some good plants include;
Edible flowers add colour, flavour and texture to your culinary dishes. They give bursts of colours and are delicious to eat. Use flowers immediately, picking the petals. Children can be encouraged to take an interest in growing and preparing food with edible flowers.
Kids love gardening, they love the dirt the play and seeing the fruits of their labour. Gardening is a wonderful outdoor activity allowing children to connect to their surroundings seeing how plants grow and how wonderful they taste from your own garden. Some examples of easy vegetables to grow with children are;
Fruit
Harvesting your very own crop of fruit from your garden is one of life’s pleasures. A fruit themed garden is possible for gardens of any size. Conditions need to be right for different fruit bearing plants. For example fruit trees don’t like wet soil but prefer loamy soil. If space within beds comes at a premium, make use of your vertical surfaces such as walls or fences with espalier apples, plums, fig trees or grape vines. Edible berry bushes can be used as a specimen plant or used as a hedges. Whilst tomatoes and strawberries are easy to grow in containers and hanging baskets.
Leafy Green and root crops
Growing a selection of leafy greens and root crops will yield a harvest from mid summer to mid winter. Create beds of rich good soil feeding it with compost. Making an edible garden look as good as it tastes by planting borders with sways of colour and texture. Some good plants include;
Edible Flowers
Edible flowers add colour, flavour and texture to your culinary dishes. They give bursts of colours and are delicious to eat. Use flowers immediately, picking the petals. Children can be encouraged to take an interest in growing and preparing food with edible flowers.
Gardening with kids
Kids love gardening, they love the dirt the play and seeing the fruits of their labour. Gardening is a wonderful outdoor activity allowing children to connect to their surroundings seeing how plants grow and how wonderful they taste from your own garden. Some examples of easy vegetables to grow with children are;
If you would like your garden redesigned by our Design team, simply complete the enquiry form or call the team today. No fees are charged for an initial chat or for most initial site meetings. We will prepare you a written “Design Fee Proposal” prior to proceeding with any charges to you.
So firstly, we will need a little bit of your time to find out a little about your ideas, then we would look to arrange an Initial Site Meeting with one of our designers, at a time convenient to you, preferably at the site location or to view drawings of developing scheme projects. At the meeting, we will listen to your requirements, then suggest the some ideas and provide advice for your project. This will take approximately one hour of your time.
Once we understand your Design requirement, we will submit a Design Fee Proposal for you to consider with no obligation, this will state our Design Fees and the stages of design work we will carry out for you. Our service is tailored to suit you, your home and your requirements so your Design Fee proposal will specify the correct type of survey required, whether you will need to invest into an optional Concept Design stage, and the appropriate stages of the process.
Each Design Package offers the most suitable survey type, a client brief, a conceptual stage if required, finally we will create a large format Master Design together with a Garden Installation Quotation & Specification to construct the new design.
We also provide planning guidance for all projects that require local authority or other permissions.
The Oakleigh Manor group provides a huge range of services geared for a beautiful Garden or Landscape, Driveways, Garden Lighting and Illumination, Drainage and/or Irrigation systems, Swimming Pools, Artificial Grass Surfaces, Resin Gravel Surfaces and more in Kent and the South East of England.
Simply complete our online Enquiry Form or call the Oakleigh Manor team on 0800 023 1310 to discuss your requirements. Our team can guide you through the options available for all our services, provide initial budgets or arrange an Initial Site Visit from one of our friendly team.
