Nature and nourishment is at the heart of Garden Organic's 'Rooted in Nature' Garden – which shows how diversely planted kitchen gardens can provide fresh food for your family while buffering the biodiversity crisis. Based around the charity’s research paper, Every Garden Matters, the garden demonstrates easy ways to maximise wildlife and manage water while growing your own food.
In the vegetable patch, diverse and colourful heirloom vegetables, such as beetroots, peas and amaranth – from Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library – are an attractive way to bring in vital pollinators while reducing 'pest' insects and the need for pesticides.
A rain garden mimics the natural action of a forest by capturing rainwater in a plant-filled ditch, helping to reduce flooding, soil erosion and drought. And a wildlife pond is surrounded by clever bug-friendly elements such as a rot holes, frog rocks and hoverfly lagoons. Even the compost heap comes complete with a bee house.
