The raised beds and plots planted as part of Edible Abingdon, a project of the Abingdon Carbon Cutters, are looking good again this year, especially after all the rain of the last week. Alongside fruit, vegetables and herbs grown for people to enjoy and eat, the garden outside Old Station House has animals and gnomes to be discovered.

The garden near Abbey House has been recently dug over and has herbs, strawberries and rhubarb.

Down by the Open Air Pool, is the first Edible Abingdon garden I featured on this blog back in 2015. It has been left to grow and among the herbs and other edible plants are gooseberries.

Gooseberries seem to be one of those fruits more often found in gardens than shop shelves – quite tart like rhubarb and best cooked and sweetened.

There are also three large raised beds alongside Caldecott Recreation Ground that had not been tended when I last visited (a few days ago). I am not sure who looks after them, or whether they are intended for community gardeners to take in hand.