A market gardens is a small scale vehcile for the production of horticultural produce.  Horticutural produce will include fruit, vegetables and flowers grown intensively with a proportion of produce being sold direct to consumer, a proportion direct to retailers with the balance to a wholesale market.

Horticulturists apply their knowledge, skills, and technologies used to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs. Their work involves plant propagation and cultivation with the aim of improving plant growth, yields, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses. They work as gardeners, growers, therapists, designers, and technical advisors in the food and non-food sectors of horticulture.

At both of our market gardens we:

• propagated tomatoes, sweet peppers, leeks, onions and brassica plants for sale to the general public;
• produced crops of tomatoes, leeks, brassicas, potatoes for sale to the public, retaillers and wholesalers;
• propagated a wide range of annual bedding plants, non-annuals such as Geraniums and other plants used for bedding purposes by the public; and
• propagated and grew crops of Gypsophilla, Dahlia, Early and Late Chrysanthemum.

In the 1920s to 1950s we also produced floral decoarations for weddings and wreaths for funerals.