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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Annual Show - Sunday 6th September, see: News/Newsletters

Annual Show Schedule, Regulations and Entry Form

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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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    MARIS BARD

    Traditional new potato taste. Heavy cropping variety. White skinned with white flesh. Ideal for salad, roast or chips.

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    A great choice for outdoor cropping, where it will produce plenty of 20cm/8in long, dark green-skinned straight fruits with a proper cucumber flavour. The plants show some resistance to powdery and downy mildews.

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    BIG DADDY

    (Indeterminate) An easy to maintain, disease resistant variety with a long harvest season. Big Daddy gives a yield of large, delicious, meaty, ruby-red fruits each weighing up to 250g. Can be grown in the greenhouse or in a sheltered sunny position outdoors.

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    MARKETMORE 76

    A great choice for outdoor cropping, where it will produce plenty of 20cm/8in long, dark green-skinned straight fruits with a proper cucumber flavour. The plants show some resistance to powdery and downy mildews.

Runner beans

Jobs for this Month - August

  1. There should be plenty to harvest this month; beans, peas, cabbages, lettuces, tomatoes...

  2. Weed and water regularly in dry weather, particularly plants in pots or grow bags.

  3. Pull up any lettuces or other crops that have bolted.

  4. Sow oriental greens, spring cabbages, spinach, turnips and winter radish.