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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

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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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    PURPLE TOP MILAN

    The classic flat-rooted turnip. Produces reliable yields of medium sized roots. The white flesh is truly delicious and the leaves are great used as 'greens'.

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    RAINBOW

    Bring colour to your vegetable garden with white, red, pink and yellow stems and savoyed green leaves. A good addition to salads as a baby leaf or can be left to mature for cooking.

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    EARLY ONWARD

    This East Anglian-bred favourite can crop up to a fortnight earlier than Onward. The low growing plants produce excellent yields of blunt-ended, dark green pods, full of peas and full of flavour.

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    AMAZON

    Fast growing, for baby leaf or mature plants. Dark green colour. Resistant to downy mildew, slow to bolt.

Lettuces

Jobs for this Month - June

  1. Plant out tender crops such as courgettes, squash and pumpkins.

  2. Sow successional carrots, beetroots, lettuces and radishes.

  3. Continue to earth-up shoots of growing potatoe plants.

  4. Harvest early lettuces, radishes and new potatoes.