Fruit Walls - History

**sparrow100** · 20-03-2018, 10:48 PM

That's a fantastic article VC, thanks for posting.

**veggiechicken** · 20-03-2018, 10:57 PM

I was impressed too! Makes me want a walled garden to play in now

**Snoop Puss** · 21-03-2018, 08:26 AM

Thanks for sharing that.

I know locals who store grapes at home in the same way now.

**Bren In Pots** · 21-03-2018, 08:58 AM

Thanks VC I've had a quick look and bookmarked it for later.

**bikermike** · 21-03-2018, 09:03 AM

fascinating - I knew about growing fruit against walls, and the wiggly walls, but not the sophistication it had reached

**nickdub** · 21-03-2018, 09:15 AM

In some Victorian gardens there was a flue built in to the wall where peaches and grapes were grown. A boy was sometimes employed to stoke the stove and keep it going over-night. So that's one growth area for employment that we could look to restart, with all the jobs now being lost to automation :-)

**Snoop Puss** · 21-03-2018, 10:00 AM

^I'm sure a pellet heater going all night could do the job too!

**Aberdeenplotter** · 21-03-2018, 11:00 AM

Great find VC.

On thedownside, my attention span isn't what it was when I was younger and I'm going to have to re-read some parts again to take it all in.

edit note, I'm going to have to repair my space bar as well

**bramble** · 21-03-2018, 04:55 PM

Very interesting article VC.
We never stop learning.

**HoneyChild** · 21-03-2018, 05:02 PM

Very interesting.

My greenhouse is timber built onto a brick wall base which is a few feet high. It was in the garden when we moved in and I wasn't keen on the fact that the brick walls block light getting onto things that might be growing low down.

Perhaps I should be pleased that it's built that way? It might help retain some heat at night.

**Greenleaves** · 21-03-2018, 06:18 PM

I enjoyed reading that, thanks VC...I recall a TV programme with Harry Dodson about fruit walls

**veggiechicken** · 21-03-2018, 06:31 PM

I remember Harry Dodson showing how to keep grapes fresh in bottles too.

Friends of mine own a Gardener's Lodge within a walled garden. The nearby old house is derelict but the gardens are still fantastic. There is a glasshouse against the walls (which must be 10-12' high). Heating pipes run through the glasshouse and inside the garden walls emerging, after some distance, on the far side in another greenhouse where there is a stove. The walls still have the wires in place for the fruit trees - even some copper labels on them.
I love visiting them - like a kid in a sweetshop. Quite envious until I remember how much hard work it must be to look after. Its a private house and garden so the only pressure is their own.

**boatsman** · 24-03-2018, 05:31 PM

Fascinating article VC, thank you.

**veggiechicken** · 22-04-2018, 08:25 AM

Walled garden being restored - with pineapple house.

Scolton Manor walled garden in Pembrokeshire restored - BBC News

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