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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

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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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    MONEY MAKER

    (Indeterminate) An old favourite that is easy to grow and gives a good crop of medium sized fruits with good flavour. Can be grown in the greenhouse or outdoors.

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    SNOW MARCH

    Snow March F1 is a medium late maturing variety ready for cutting about 180 days after planting out. It contains a large plant size with heavy dome shape heads weighing over 1kg. The deep green leaves give excellent frost protection to the curds.

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    JADE

    Early maturing pointed heads are packed full of flavour and stay compact, standing well in the ground until harvested. Shows good resistance to Fusarium for high quality crops through autumn.

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    TENDER AND TRUE

    Still a very popular long variety with very little core, noted for its lovely flavour. Large rooted, traditional type, an excellent parsnip with high quality tapering roots with some resistance to canker. Maturing time approximately 32-36 weeks from sowing.

Lettuces

Jobs for this Month - June

  1. Plant out tender crops such as courgettes, squash and pumpkins.

  2. Sow successional carrots, beetroots, lettuces and radishes.

  3. Continue to earth-up shoots of growing potatoe plants.

  4. Harvest early lettuces, radishes and new potatoes.