Over the years
Vegetables were grown at Invergowrie for sustenance and survival in the 1860’s and more recently for taste and pleasure with asparagus, vine ripened tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, salad greens, herbs, potatoes, carrots, rhubarb, berries, figs and chard or silverbeet in the garden today.
The first recorded account of vegetable and fruit growing at Invergowrie was in a newspaper article in 1895. The article reports on the fruit grown in the large commercial orchard to the north and east of the Invergowrie homestead planted on 4 ½ acres in the 1870’s. The orchard produced thousands of cases of fruit that was sold under the Invergowrie brand. There were many kinds of fruits and nuts including apples,
pears, quinces, apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, walnuts and almonds. The only citrus tree was a bush lemon that grew over a small slab hut, since demolished, inhabited by ‘old Jim’.
When the fruit trees, planted in the 1870’s died back, Kenneth Norman Moffatt established a new smaller orchard in 1945, behind the tennis court to the south east of the homestead.
The photograph from 1908 shows the extensive vegetable garden located on the eastern side of the homestead with beds running in an east west direction. The restoration of the vegetable garden in the 1990’s was a priority, ensuring seasonal availability of herbs, fruit and vegetables.
The first recorded account of vegetable and fruit growing at Invergowrie was in a newspaper article in 1895. The article reports on the fruit grown in the large commercial orchard to the north and east of the Invergowrie homestead planted on 4 ½ acres in the 1870’s. The orchard produced thousands of cases of fruit that was sold under the Invergowrie brand. There were many kinds of fruits and nuts including apples,
pears, quinces, apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, walnuts and almonds. The only citrus tree was a bush lemon that grew over a small slab hut, since demolished, inhabited by ‘old Jim’.
When the fruit trees, planted in the 1870’s died back, Kenneth Norman Moffatt established a new smaller orchard in 1945, behind the tennis court to the south east of the homestead.
The photograph from 1908 shows the extensive vegetable garden located on the eastern side of the homestead with beds running in an east west direction. The restoration of the vegetable garden in the 1990’s was a priority, ensuring seasonal availability of herbs, fruit and vegetables.