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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Social Event - BBQ, cakes, drinks and the opportunity to meet others on Monday 4th May (Bank Holiday)

More details will follow soon, but for now please save the date.

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    Forms

    The new place to find all our current forms

  • Allotment plot

    Renting a Plot

    Looking to rent an allotment plot? Look here for more information

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    Trading Hut

    The trading hut is open to our plot holders and green finger members


Growing Guides

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    MARMANDE

    (Semi-determinate) The fruits won't win prizes for beauty, but the flavour is what matters and Marmande has it in abundance. The fruits are large, early and contain few seeds. Outdoor variety.

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    JAVELIN

    A British-bred variety with smooth skinned roots of very good flavour, excellent for roasting. It is a very flexible variety being one with the latest sowing time on the market. With a last sowing date of around the 3rd week in May. It has good canker-resistance.

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    MARION

    This Nantes-type variety was given an Award of Garden Merit by the RHS in 2010. It's long, well coloured roots will stay in condition in the ground for several months and will over-winter successfully in some areas, providing tasty carrots for much of the year.

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    ONION DE PARIS

    Onion de Paris gives a delicious crop of small, rather flat, white-skinned bulbs which are perfect either for pickling or adding to casseroles or salads. It has a good, full flavour.

Seedlings

Jobs for this Month - April

  1. Earth up first early potatoes and plant out second early and main crop potatoes

  2. Sow french beans and runner beans indoors in 3” pots.

  3. Transplant seedlings of leeks, onions and early summer cabbages and protect with cloches.

  4. Sow Swiss chard, beetroot, autumn cabbages, celeriac, peas, radishes, early lettuce, turnips and swedes direct outside.