The Secret Garden

Food production in the backyard garden and allotment

Self sufficient gardening

by John Hayes

refreshed October 20, 2020

Making charcoal to profit from the land

A selection of gardening tools

Wild growing plums in a hedgerow near me

Sea of green baby leaf lettuce growing indoors

Livestock like chickens are important for small producers

Making my own jam at home

My homemade plum and sloe gins

a pear grown in my backyard garden

Broccolli growing on my allotment

An aubergine growing hydroponically under growlights indoors

A young courgette growing in my polytunnel

The raised beds in my backyard garden

My biggest ever pumpkin

My name is John Hayes. I grew my first tomatoes when I was 9 and I have grown vegetables and fruit in North Yorkshire…