POD BLOG

Inspire

Be inspired by the gardens of others and see how their excitement and passion for producing fresh food has taken shape in their own growing spaces.

POD takes a tour of edible gardens great and small in the UK, Europe, New Zealand and elsewhere. We learn from their gardeners why they grow, what they grow and how they grow their food. POD sits in on unique and personal stories from the edible gardening community.

Our featured gardeners share their experiences – the highs and lows of ‘grow your own’, what worked for them and what didn’t.

In the photographs of the gardens and in the words of the gardeners that tend them there are tips, design ideas, edible accomplishments to enjoy and plenty of evidence to show that everything need not be perfect to be worthwhile!

Featured story

John Harris | Illustrator

The garden is in an open sunny position surrounded by fields.
It is about an acre in total if you include a new orchard we have just planted and the chicken coop.

Its now in its third year and I probably send about 6 hours a week in it – its just outside my workshop. I garden with my friend Mark Pearce.

Oscar Neimeier and Roberto Burle Marx really got me into the aesthetics of gardening along with Piet Oudolf and Beth Chatto. Another great inspiration is my friend Jeremy Mc Burney. As for growing food, it was my dad and his allotment when I was a boy. I particularly remember him bringing home fresh coriander. Dad had a big garden with a greenhouse heated by an old paraffin heater. He’d spend hours in there fixing the glass – it’s a good memory.

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