Home And Garden | Small Space, Big Harvest
Pollard Park’s potager was designed to show the public what can be achieved on a small section, with an abundance of fruit, berries, herbs and vegetables harvested since it was planted last November.
The original potager was developed as a Garden Marlborough workshop in 1996 but superseded by the larger version in last year’s workshop.
Rachel Hutchinson did the initial design for the new garden, with a variety of garden beds, a trio of compost boxes, a worm farm and a seed raising table, and a panel for public information.
The idea is that the garden is in a small enough space that people should be able to do it at home, she says.
Berries climb a fence where little hands can grab them, herbs pop up among vegetables and a large iron structure awaits the pumpkin vines that will climb it this year.
There’s a citrus orchard, with a Buddha claw, kaffir lime, lemonade, lemon, grapefruit, mandarin and orange tree.
With apple and feijoa trees too, the
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