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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Tidy Up Site Morning - Sat 11th July 12th September

CFAGS Competition - Sat 18th & Sun 19th July 2026

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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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    EXCEL

    The sweetest flavoured spring cabbage, its small heads are quite delicious. The flavour is perhaps better still when harvested as really young spring greens.

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    LOBJOITS GREEN

    One of the larger cos lettuces, it is very upright and yields good sized hearts of tip-top flavour and texture. Can be cut over a long season.

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    WEBBS WONDERFUL

    A favourite Iceberg type lettuce that is easy to grow. This crisp and tender lettuce produces large, solid crunchy hearts with a good flavour. Slow to bolt even in hot weather and reliably performs all summer long.

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    LYON

    Produces heavy yields of long thick white stems that have a delicious flavour and are also good for the show bench. Has good winter hardiness for lifting from October through to December.

Tomato truss

Jobs for this Month - July

  1. Plant out any remaining seedlings raised in spring/early summer.

  2. Pinch out side sheets of cordon tomatoes and feed with liquid tomato fertilizer.

  3. Remove tips of climbing beans if they have reached the top of their supports.

  4. Spray potatoes and tomatoes with fungicide such as Bordeaux mixture to prevent blight.