Gardens
Pilsdon at Malling covers six acres (including buildings) and we attempt to live as self-sufficiently as possible. We have a large vegetable garden with two vast greenhouses left by our monastic predecessors, who used to grow tomatoes hydroponically and sold them locally as 'Monastery Tomatoes'.
We are now producing grapes in the larger greenhouse both for our own use and for sale. The vines create a beautiful canopy underneath which we are growing tomatoes, peppers, chillies and aubergines. The types of vegetables are grouped together and we use a four-bed rotation system over each year.