Walled Garden

The Walled Garden at Malham Tarn was left derelict for many years until 2008, at which time the Field Centre and National Trust have overhauled the whole garden and started planting crops of vegetables again. 

The overall area of garden is split into two with a wild habitat garden with large fruit trees as one half and the other half is a large vegetable plot. Both have gone from strength to strength each year. We have numerous visitor to the Field Centre who take part in conservation activities. One of the main things that the students do is to look after our part of the Walled Garden. Tasks have included path laying, path clearing, vegetable planting, bird feeder making, weeding, and habitat construction.

This year the garden has been very successful with many schools contributing to the garden, with everything being planted that we planned to. Carrots have been harvested twice this summer already with still much more to come. Havelock Academy and St Mary's planted these for us. A couple of weeks ago 1kg of carrots were harvested and this week another 2kg have been dug up for dinner for our current visitors at centre.

Runner beans were planted by Rauceby Primary, these are doing really well and are flowering nicely.

Onions planted by Bradford Girls and Framingham Earl are really big and should be ready to dig up within the next month.

Summer Sprouting broccoli planted by Lady Lane did really well and we have been harvesting when they have been ready for the last two weeks.

Radishes planted by Moorfield and Havelock were amazing and 1.5kg were harvested by Framingham Earl at the start of July.

The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust brought a group of volunteers in mid July and they have planted Swede and Beetroot.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the schools that have helped with the Walled Garden, and we cannot wait to harvest the remaining vegetables later in the season.