The Garden
Covering an area of around 180 square metres, the Big Brother garden provides luxury, stimulus, food, outdoor bean bags and feathered friends for the occupants of the House!
If by chance Jon' Solar Panel Water Heater doesn't work out, then there's always the heated swimming pool perfect for warming up or cooling off, by cool spring day or balmy summer night.
Extending from the House and into the garden is an outdoor sheltered area with seating where Gos was typically seen just after feeding time splayed over a favourite beanbag. Cedar wood has been used to build the arbour because it absorbs heat during the day and so keeps the area warm in the evening. Ingenious, really.
The garden isn't all about luxury, though, despite the swimming pool, barbeque and arbour. The housemates are equipped with a number of essential garden implements including secateurs, forks, shovels and gloves to help them keep the weeds at bay and foliage and plants in tip-top condition.
Farmer Jon's vegetable patch contains courgettes, broad beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, spring onions, lettuce, strawberries and rhubarb - perfect for those weeks when the shopping budget is on the lean side.
The garden was initially home to seven Big Brother chickens; Matilda, Rudy, Doris, Stella, Parsley, Parsnip and Killer. However, the chickens too have not avoided the reach of eviction and each of the original seven has been replaced.
