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| Deep cold frame bed. Looks like peas? It's amazing how early (and late) they can grow veggies in these things. |
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| Late summer veggies with Bruton Parish Church in the background. |
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| Large pomegranate trees loaded with fruit. The orchard has 4 or 5 of these and they are about 15 feet tall. |
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| Hanging gourds and muscadine grapes on a massive trellis/arbor. Sometimes they dry the gourds and turn them into birdhouses. |
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| Small kitchen garden behind one of the historic buildings. |
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| Fig trees that were cut to the ground about 2 years ago. Now they are appx. 10 feet tall. |
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| Hidden path flanked by amazing old boxwoods. |
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| Governor's Palace. Bummer...the best gardens locked behind the gate! I'll have to return this fall. |
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| Kitchen garden at the Governor's Palace. Tiered beds prepped for fall planting. I managed to snap a few pics over the brick wall. |
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| A different view of the Governor's Palace kitchen garden. |
3 comments:
I love that first picture of the deep cold frame. Great idea to add the bricks to help keep in the heat. I definitely need to try that out. -Carrie
Those cold frames are actually dug quite deeply. The farmers would put in thick layers of horse manure in, then add a thin layer of soil. The heat generated from the composting manure would raise the temperature of the soil quite a bit. They could grow fairly warm crops in cold conditions.
That's interesting. Looking at the picture a bit more closely I see that the top bricks actually ARE at about the level of the outside soil. So that is quite deep. Good info! -Carrie
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