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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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    SPITFIRE

    Produces small fruits which are ideal for roasting, use in a pumpkin pie or carving for Halloween decoration. The plants are highly productive producing numerous bright orange pumpkins with firm sweet tasting flesh.

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    POMPEI

    A quick-growing round white onion which is equally delicious for salads or pickling.

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    ROMA

    (Semi-determinate) Versatile midi-plum variety with few seeds and bags of flavour, perfect for making passata, other sauces and for soup. Shows good disease resistance to wilt. Grow outdoors or indoors.

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    FELTHAM FIRST

    Round seeded pea 'Feltham First' is a long-standing favourite, an old variety long popular with amateurs and market gardeners alike. A sturdy 'dwarf' variety that requires little support, the plants grow to a height of 45 to 60cm (18 to 24in).

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.