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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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    MERSLEY WIGHT

    (Soft neck) A Classic "Silverskin" type, ideal for late winter or spring planting. One of the best for keeping qualities, it can be stored up to June the following year. Mersley Wight has outstanding vigour and is larger and bolder than similar types. Ideal garlic for the UK gardener. Ready for harvest end of July.

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    MARIS PIPER

    A reliable general purpose choice producing tubers that show good resistance to eelworm and are a national favourite. Great beginner variety. Colour - white. Shape - oval. Boil, steam, mash, chip, saute, bake or roast.

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    ALL THE YEAR ROUND

    A traditional favourite butterhead variety! Medium-sized butterhead (soft hearted) variety, which has great flavour and a lovely crisp texture. Plants are slow to bolt and with a long harvesting period.

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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.

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.