Edible Garden at 26 Lammermoor terrace

Back garden is a forest edge garden, with a social area in the middle and productive edges featuring fruit trees, bushes and cane fruit, unusual climbers (such as Chocolat vine), perennial vegetables and salads and a mini-pond. The front is terraced to improve water absorption and to enable access to further unusual fruit like Chinese dogwood, Arctic kiwi and mulberry, and showier edimentals to tempt passers-by. A larger pond here features aquatic edibles and offers habitat fro frogs, water snails and other invertebrates. Rain water harvesting, recently updated to 800 l capacity, mitigates droughts in spring and summer, and tops up the ponds. Favourable microclimates are used to grow tender Mediterranean plants in summer and less hardy edibles all year round, and propagate vegetables and other desired plants. The garden provides some food most days in the year and keeps us in fruit from  mid-June to late November. Perennial vegetables peak in March-June, with annual salads taking over around May. Design allows for minimal maintenance and  maximum enjoyment, although the garden is too small for true self-reliance on food, and we also have an allotment for annual crops.