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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Saturday 10th October, Wildlife Field Tidy Up, meeting at 9.30am by the field near the Hall

Saturday 14th November, Artisan Fair in the Hall

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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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    PARIS SILVERSKIN

    Paris Silverskin are an easy to grow, dual purpose onion. If you like a good size bulb on "spring" onions pull them young or leave to mature and crop as small onions for pickling. This way they can be pickled for use in summer salads or added whole to winter stews. Delicious!

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    LONGOR

    An excellent elongated banana-type variety with copper coloured skins and pink flesh. Each organic shallot yields 6-8 bulbs at harvest. Very easy to peel and slice. Great tasting sweet flavour! Harvest June-September.

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    MAMMOTH

    An orange-skinned pumpkin with yellow flesh, which gardeners have grown to a weight of over 50kg. Recommended for exhibition. This variety has been trialled, tested and recommended by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.

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    SWEET CANDLE

    This superb carrot is rapidly building up quite a reputation with exhibitors! Roots are very uniform, smooth-skinned and blunt-ended. Both internal and external colour are superb and the delicious, cylindrical roots are topped with strong, vigorous foliage.

Green manure

Jobs for this Month - October

  1. Clear away the remains of all plants that have finished cropping.

  2. Sow over-wintering green manures.

  3. Plant garlic and sow hardy broad beans under cloches for cropping next year.

  4. Install new water butts to collect rain over winter.