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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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    UCHIKI KURI

    An onion-shaped squash with orange skin and flesh with a good flavour. Early to mature and a very good keeping variety.

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    RISING SUN

    A 'Supersweet' variety bred to mature quickly for a shorter growing season. Shows good vigour in cold conditions and resistance to common diseases, for high quality, reliable crops of large and deliciously sweet kernels. Proven to be a reliable performer in the unpredictable British summers.

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    SWEETMAX

    This British-bred variety produces top quality, well-shaped fruits suitable for exhibition work and ideal for the kitchen. It sets fruits early making the most of the sun we receive for sweet and tasty flesh. Each plant can produce up to three squashes, each up to 3kg.

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    RED SPARK

    A quality hybrid which produces uniform, round bulbs with a deep red colour. It has excellent skin quality and good flavour and will store well.

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.