Visit Mark and Judy 19 January 2014

On Sunday 19 January we visited Mark and Judy's garden at Lindisfarne
Around 25 of us turned up for a really enjoyable morning in Mark and Judy's very nice large suburban garden. A year or so ago Mark and Judy decided that they would only add productive plants to their garden from there on. The result is a wonderful array of annual and perennial veggies, fruit and berries.

Here Mark (second from left) and Judy (third from right) welcome us and tell us what has gone right and gone wrong in the past and their plans for the garden from here on:

Here are some examples of the plants we saw:

Late peas in a quarter of a large circular bed

Plums ripe and juicy

a young Quince

Two promising Ginger shoots in a sheltered position

Very ornamental Globe Artichokes

Previously Mark and Judy had 'the biggest Passion Fruit in the Southern Hemisphere' along the sheltered North-facing wall of Mark's pottery studio, but Passion Fruits don't last for ever and it died a bit over a year ago. Its successor is already on its way to producing its first fruit.

This Passion Fruit is only a year old and obviously very happy

A lot of people had a look at Mark's pottery studio and his wonderful ceramics.  Most people would be very jealous of a workplace environment like this.

Everyone had a great time socialising and talking about all sorts of things relating to food-gardening. 

Our produce table was well-stocked

And so was the morning-tea table with Judy's and her daughter's wonderful cakes and many other contributions by visitors ....

Mark and Judy, thank you very much for hosting this great food-garden visit. We all learnt and we all went home inspired and eager to do things in our own gardens.

This text was previously published on the Food Garden Group blog. It was written by Max Bee.