The part that impressed me most at the Bloom Festival in the Phoenix Park over the last few days was the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden. This has got to be the ultimate in kitchen gardens. At a hectare (or 2.5 arces in old money) it is a huge amount of space and includes generous beds of nearly any vegetables, fruit, and herbs that you would want to grow in your garden. The garden is open from 10am to 4.30pm daily all year round and you can meet the gardeners on the second Saturday of every month.
A larger patch of courgettes and pumpkins
Definitely worth a visit. I would be intersted in talking to the gardeners to know what they do with all these vegetables when they are ready for harvest. There is enough food here to feed a small town.
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