231:. This became the fictionalised garden Charleston Kedding in her book of the same name, first published in 1996. The name was an anagram of old kitchen gardens to protect the identity of the garden. However, interest in the subject matter was so great that it was eventually felt there was no need for anonymity and the book was subsequently re-issued in 2005 by Frances Lincoln publishers with the more descriptive title A History of Kitchen Gardening. All editions of the book were illustrated with drawings by the author.
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where the vast walled kitchen garden was intact and still in production. She had never seen a functioning walled kitchen garden before. The garden there, then, was in stark contrast to almost every walled kitchen garden in
England, where so many had fallen into dereliction with the decline of the
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Kitchen Garden Network in 2001. This continues to be supported by
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to make fortnightly drawings of various towns and social events in the UK. She was awarded an Abbey Minor
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