A cutting and kitchen garden, built to be worked

Not every garden is a border to look at. This one is a garden to work — vegetables, cut flowers and soft fruit for a household that wanted to grow a real proportion of what it ate.

The section here is mostly below the datum: the depth of good soil in the raised beds, the rabbit fence dug a spade below grade, the drainage under the standing-out area so it does not become a bog in February. The part you see is the least of it.

The paths are resin-bound and wide enough for a barrow and a wheelchair alike, because a productive garden that is hard to reach stops being productive by August.