Organic Kitchen Garden • Maintenance • Design
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Your garden can be beautiful and productive, diverse and well looked after.

We maintain gardens using organic gardening principles and design with wildlife, pleasure and seasons in mind.   Our gardens are situated in Brighton, Ditchling, Ovingdean, across Sussex and the surrounding South Downs National Park.

Our gardens make up around a fifth of our urban space. These little green patches that are linked to other little green patches across the country are ours to nurture as a chain of biodiverse sanctuaries for ourselves and nature. Provide the right plants and your garden will soon be full of pollinators and other wildlife. Invite them and they will come!  

Let’s fill your hanging baskets, planters and borders with nectar-rich, berry-laden, attractive plants.

Combining flowers, edibles, shrubs and trees, we create gardens with year-round interest, nutrition and joy for you. 

With such busy lives we are becoming more and more out of touch with the soil, plants and nature. We’ll make your garden one that you will want to become more engaged with, be it relaxing, harvesting, playing or just sitting, looking and reconnecting with nature.

 

Organic Kitchen Garden

Grow tasty and healthy vegetables and fruits in your garden.

There is always space for something edible amongst your flowers and shrubs, in raised beds, planters, along a fence or a vegetable plot.

Let me start food production in your garden.

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Maintenance

Gardens need maintenance and healthy soil.

Plants require care, pruning, watering, tying in, cutting back, mulching and grass needs mowing.

We use organic methods and biological, not chemical, pest control.

 
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Design and Planting Plans

As garden designers and maintainers we create gardens that work well, inspire and thrive.

Organic biodiverse gardens do not need to be messy! Whether you prefer sleek contemporary or naturalistic and soft we produce wildlife-conscious, creative and practical designs for commercial and domestic clients.

We are here to help with complete garden design or just planning the planting.

 

 

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We are always happy to hear from you to discuss your needs and dreams for your outdoor space, however small or large.

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I was excited to be invited to help @charles_dowding this week at his #marketgarden - 'Homeacres' and I've learned so much about #nodig. What a diverse and hugely enjoyable week 🥬💚🌱 Some on the many highlights in pictures: planting and tying up o
I was excited to be invited to help @charles_dowding this week at his #marketgarden - 'Homeacres' and I've learned so much about #nodig. What a diverse and hugely enjoyable week 🥬💚🌱 Some on the many highlights in pictures: planting and tying up of several varieties of #strawberries. #birdsnestfungi growing in the borders that wouldn't be there if the soil was disturbed - thank you @myco_ad. Prepping radish for local restaurants. filming for the inspiring @roots_ed - looking forward to seeing you guys in brighton on an allotment soon :) Pricking out mini cabbages. The beautiful #offgrid roundhouse, my home for the week. #Glastonburytor at sunset. #scything around the #compostloo and filling with Homeacres hay. Charles cutting his #homemade, #handground rye flour #sourdough rye bread . Rye also now growing at Homeacres. Thank you so much Charles!
A visit to a quarry @hadspenquarry with @charles_dowding to finish his pond with @myco_ad. A van and car full of Cary Stone ( Castle Cary), rinsed, laid on felt #cementfree and then gap filled with topsoil. With EXACTLY the right amount of stone! hig
A visit to a quarry @hadspenquarry with @charles_dowding to finish his pond with @myco_ad. A van and car full of Cary Stone ( Castle Cary), rinsed, laid on felt #cementfree and then gap filled with topsoil. With EXACTLY the right amount of stone! high fives all round:) #castlecary #bruton #pond #localstone #quarry #quarrylife #highfive
Some new fabulous planting textures at @thenewtinsomerset, loving the lily pad in the paving too and what biblical weather! Torrential! Like tropical hail! #nativeplants #shadeplants #verdant #hailstorm #newt #thenewtinsomerset
Some new fabulous planting textures at @thenewtinsomerset, loving the lily pad in the paving too and what biblical weather! Torrential! Like tropical hail! #nativeplants #shadeplants #verdant #hailstorm #newt #thenewtinsomerset
What an curious little friend I had with me today! Two #robin seemed to be tag teaming food collection. They lucked out with me today getting weeds out of the patio and revealing lots of tasty morsels. They returned to their nests with laden beaks !
What an curious little friend I had with me today! Two #robin seemed to be tag teaming food collection. They lucked out with me today getting weeds out of the patio and revealing lots of tasty morsels. They returned to their nests with laden beaks ! #springwatch #robin #nests #worms #ditchling #weeding
The joy from hedgerow flowers! #forgetmenot #lamium #cowparsley #bluebells #alexanders #mini #vases #inkwell #vintage #greenglass #hedgerow #spring #joy #flowerarrangement #savesomeforthebees #irrisistable
The joy from hedgerow flowers! #forgetmenot #lamium #cowparsley #bluebells #alexanders #mini #vases #inkwell #vintage #greenglass #hedgerow #spring #joy #flowerarrangement #savesomeforthebees #irrisistable
By coating the seeds with live compost, full of beneficial microbes, I'm ensuring that when the seed germinates all the #soilfoodweb is there right in the #rootzone to help get the seedling of to the healthiest strongest, most vibrant start. I sprinkle this mixture along the seed row. With thanks to @tamarorganics for the beautiful organic chard seed that you can see looking like fissured peas and @compost.club for the wonderful work you're doing spreading the word and for the outstanding compost! #organic #organicgardening #organicgardeningmethods #soilfoodweb #livingsoil #livecompost #brighton #innoculum #biophilia #soilscience #fungi #bacteria #protozoa #nematodes #microarthropods #drelaineingham
Mildly obsessed with this little one this morning - drying itself out from the dew and waiting for the sun's warmth to dry its wings and disguising itself perfectly amoung the thick patch of wood anemones. Check his face! #largemarblebutterfly #butte
Mildly obsessed with this little one this morning - drying itself out from the dew and waiting for the sun's warmth to dry its wings and disguising itself perfectly amoung the thick patch of wood anemones. Check his face! #largemarblebutterfly #butterfly @lady.birdgardening
The perfect blossom, droplets of dew, blue sky, friends who you're lucky to work with. With @lady.birdgardening #blossom #dew #perfectpicture #organicgardening #naturesbest
The perfect blossom, droplets of dew, blue sky, friends who you're lucky to work with. With @lady.birdgardening #blossom #dew #perfectpicture #organicgardening #naturesbest
Tiddling Tadpoles in abundance! It must be Spring! These are freshly hatched and eating the algae in the sunny pond. Soon they'll be froglets and in three months they'll be frogs :) 🐸#frog #tadpoles #froglets #ditchling #wildlifegardening #organic #sussex #spring #joy #abundance
Had a wonderful moment in the sunshine researching and comparing several Cardamines today with @lady.birdgardening. I've got some for my salad tonight - what a beautiful aromatic watercress/ brassica flavour. The Caramine pratensis ( meadow watercre
Had a wonderful moment in the sunshine researching and comparing several Cardamines today with @lady.birdgardening. I've got some for my salad tonight - what a beautiful aromatic watercress/ brassica flavour. The Caramine pratensis ( meadow watercress) loves the wet soils of Westmeston as do the snake's head fritillary ( Fritillaria meleagris). There are so many white ones here too. I'm always fascinated by the chequered pattern which gives it one of its many other name - Chess flower. #chess #snakesheadfritillary #snakes #forage #cardaminepratensis #bittercress #watercress #gardener #plantlife #nerds #meadow #ditchling #westmeston #sussex #southdowns #blackdoghill #ditchlingbeacon
The mechanics of Little Amal's face were mesmerising 🧡! Thanks for visiting us in Brighton. A stunning symbol of displaced people and refugees everywhere #littleamal #brighton #puppet
The mechanics of Little Amal's face were mesmerising 🧡! Thanks for visiting us in Brighton. A stunning symbol of displaced people and refugees everywhere #littleamal #brighton #puppet
Loving looking close up into this compost from @compost.club - can you spot worms, worm eggs, microbe charged biochar, microarthropods? Packed full of life it will give a huge nutritional and microbe boost to the soil around the hellebores, geranium,
Loving looking close up into this compost from @compost.club - can you spot worms, worm eggs, microbe charged biochar, microarthropods? Packed full of life it will give a huge nutritional and microbe boost to the soil around the hellebores, geranium, ferns dicentra and brunnera I planted into a new shady area yesterday. Looking forward to watching the plants thrive :) #microbes #soilfoodweb #compost #worms #wormeggs #microarthropods #biochar #lewes #brighton #carbonsequestration #nodiggarden #healthysoil
With all the gorgeous snowdrop pictures being posted I thought I'd show today's RED sightings instead of WHITE. Acer buds, Parrotia pérsica ( Persian ironwood ) blossom, wind pollinated hazel flowers and catkins, beautiful burgeoning nature :)
With all the gorgeous snowdrop pictures being posted I thought I'd show today's RED sightings instead of WHITE. Acer buds, Parrotia pérsica ( Persian ironwood ) blossom, wind pollinated hazel flowers and catkins, beautiful burgeoning nature :) #parrotia #corylusavellana #hazel #blossom #acer #red #burgeoning #spring #organic #statement #tree #buds #getoutdoors #getoutside
This honey bee is really getting stuck in, check out the pollen everywhere! Laden! 💛🧡💛🧡#honeybee #crocus #pollen #ditchling #springbulbs #organicgardening
This honey bee is really getting stuck in, check out the pollen everywhere! Laden! 💛🧡💛🧡#honeybee #crocus #pollen #ditchling #springbulbs #organicgardening
These stunning crisp frosty mornings are highlighting the wonderful textures in the miniature worlds of a rockery I planted up last year. It's doing so well, dispute the cold. We have lots of aplines and around 10 different sedums and plenty of these
These stunning crisp frosty mornings are highlighting the wonderful textures in the miniature worlds of a rockery I planted up last year. It's doing so well, dispute the cold. We have lots of aplines and around 10 different sedums and plenty of these very cute early flowering hoop petticoat daffodils that easily naturalise, as do the snowdrops. #frost #petticoat #narcissi #daffodils #sedum #rockery #snowdrops #galanthus
A lovely day at #seedysunday last weekend. I asked @charles_dowding about growing #organic #nodig in a field of #marestail. Double cardboard and thick compost rules apply but with a dark plastic walkway around as a path to help suppress it from ar
A lovely day at #seedysunday last weekend. I asked @charles_dowding about growing #organic #nodig in a field of #marestail. Double cardboard and thick compost rules apply but with a dark plastic walkway around as a path to help suppress it from around the edges. #straightfromthehorsesmouth. Looking forward to getting this project started.
I forgot to share these beauties from last Monday in Westmeston. Why not wrap up and go and find some snowdrops weekend :) it's too early to rely on pollinators, although they enjoy visits from insects, they divide their bulbs which is why you see ve
I forgot to share these beauties from last Monday in Westmeston. Why not wrap up and go and find some snowdrops weekend :) it's too early to rely on pollinators, although they enjoy visits from insects, they divide their bulbs which is why you see very tight clusters sometimes. #westmeston #galanthus #snowdrops #winter #winterflowers #cute #drops
Don't worry we're in February and Spring is coming! Heady beautiful scent from Sarcococca confusa that we planted in a shady courtyard garden under Acer 'orange dream' with Hakonechloa macra ( they're both still sleeping) Stunning Crocus tommasinisnu
Don't worry we're in February and Spring is coming! Heady beautiful scent from Sarcococca confusa that we planted in a shady courtyard garden under Acer 'orange dream' with Hakonechloa macra ( they're both still sleeping) Stunning Crocus tommasinisnus has naturalised and spread over the years - such a joyous sight. Hemerocallis foliage has a rich bluish green that I adore - look at that lushness! Hooray! #february #hemerocallis #sarcococca #headyscent #winterflowers #crocus #brighton #springiscoming #allseasonplanting
@lady.birdgardening thank you for taking this video of our new toy! @charles_dowding thank you for the tip about the #bosch chipper we're enjoying making minced wood for our compost and paths. Claire's named her Bertha after #stopmotion tv series in #1980s
Beautiful sunrise from Ditchling Beacon. It's so cold and raw working before the sun is properly up but seeing the frosty crystals and the stunning light are the rewards. #ditchlingbeacon #ditchling #westmeston #blackdoghill #frost #sunrise #freezin
Beautiful sunrise from Ditchling Beacon. It's so cold and raw working before the sun is properly up but seeing the frosty crystals and the stunning light are the rewards. #ditchlingbeacon #ditchling #westmeston #blackdoghill #frost #sunrise #freezingcold❄️ #crystals #brr #needmythermals #twopairsofsocks
I was excited to be invited to help @charles_dowding this week at his #marketgarden - 'Homeacres' and I've learned so much about #nodig. What a diverse and hugely enjoyable week 🥬💚🌱 Some on the many highlights in pictures: planting and tying up o A visit to a quarry @hadspenquarry with @charles_dowding to finish his pond with @myco_ad. A van and car full of Cary Stone ( Castle Cary), rinsed, laid on felt #cementfree and then gap filled with topsoil. With EXACTLY the right amount of stone! hig Some new fabulous planting textures at @thenewtinsomerset, loving the lily pad in the paving too and what biblical weather! Torrential! Like tropical hail! #nativeplants #shadeplants #verdant #hailstorm #newt #thenewtinsomerset What an curious little friend I had with me today! Two #robin seemed to be tag teaming food collection. They lucked out with me today getting weeds out of the patio and revealing lots of tasty morsels. They returned to their nests with laden beaks ! The joy from hedgerow flowers! #forgetmenot #lamium #cowparsley #bluebells #alexanders #mini #vases #inkwell #vintage #greenglass #hedgerow #spring #joy #flowerarrangement #savesomeforthebees #irrisistable
By coating the seeds with live compost, full of beneficial microbes, I'm ensuring that when the seed germinates all the #soilfoodweb is there right in the #rootzone to help get the seedling of to the healthiest strongest, most vibrant start. I sprink
Mildly obsessed with this little one this morning - drying itself out from the dew and waiting for the sun's warmth to dry its wings and disguising itself perfectly amoung the thick patch of wood anemones. Check his face! #largemarblebutterfly #butte The perfect blossom, droplets of dew, blue sky, friends who you're lucky to work with. With @lady.birdgardening #blossom #dew #perfectpicture #organicgardening #naturesbest
Tiddling Tadpoles in abundance! It must be Spring! These are freshly hatched and eating the algae in the sunny pond. Soon they'll be froglets and in three months they'll be frogs :) 🐸#frog #tadpoles #froglets #ditchling #wildlifegardening #organic #
Had a wonderful moment in the sunshine researching and comparing several Cardamines today with @lady.birdgardening. I've got some for my salad tonight - what a beautiful aromatic watercress/ brassica flavour. The Caramine pratensis ( meadow watercre The mechanics of Little Amal's face were mesmerising 🧡! Thanks for visiting us in Brighton. A stunning symbol of displaced people and refugees everywhere #littleamal #brighton #puppet Loving looking close up into this compost from @compost.club - can you spot worms, worm eggs, microbe charged biochar, microarthropods? Packed full of life it will give a huge nutritional and microbe boost to the soil around the hellebores, geranium, With all the gorgeous snowdrop pictures being posted I thought I'd show today's RED sightings instead of WHITE. Acer buds, Parrotia pérsica ( Persian ironwood ) blossom, wind pollinated hazel flowers and catkins, beautiful burgeoning nature :) This honey bee is really getting stuck in, check out the pollen everywhere! Laden! 💛🧡💛🧡#honeybee #crocus #pollen #ditchling #springbulbs #organicgardening These stunning crisp frosty mornings are highlighting the wonderful textures in the miniature worlds of a rockery I planted up last year. It's doing so well, dispute the cold. We have lots of aplines and around 10 different sedums and plenty of these A lovely day at #seedysunday last weekend. I asked @charles_dowding about growing #organic #nodig in a field of #marestail. Double cardboard and thick compost rules apply but with a dark plastic walkway around as a path to help suppress it from ar I forgot to share these beauties from last Monday in Westmeston. Why not wrap up and go and find some snowdrops weekend :) it's too early to rely on pollinators, although they enjoy visits from insects, they divide their bulbs which is why you see ve Don't worry we're in February and Spring is coming! Heady beautiful scent from Sarcococca confusa that we planted in a shady courtyard garden under Acer 'orange dream' with Hakonechloa macra ( they're both still sleeping) Stunning Crocus tommasinisnu
@lady.birdgardening thank you for taking this video of our new toy! @charles_dowding thank you for the tip about the #bosch chipper we're enjoying making minced wood for our compost and paths. Claire's named her Bertha after #stopmotion tv series in
Beautiful sunrise from Ditchling Beacon. It's so cold and raw working before the sun is properly up but seeing the frosty crystals and the stunning light are the rewards. #ditchlingbeacon #ditchling #westmeston #blackdoghill #frost #sunrise #freezin