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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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    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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    FLYAWAY

    The one to grow if carrot fly is a problem in your garden, for it has some resistance to this pest. Early, sweet, blunt-ended carrots of excellent colour and flavour.

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    CINDERELLA

    This centuries-old French heirloom pumpkin looks just like the coach in the fairy tale Cinderella. The glowing orange color contrasts magically with the very pronounced lobes and flattened top. Tasty, orange flesh transforms pies and savory dishes. Each plant sends out 10 foot vines with up to 6 fruit as large as 15 inches across.

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    KESTREL

    A wonderful old fashioned taste, which absorbs less fat when it is cooking. Good for the show bench and resistant to slugs. Colour - white, blue. Shape - long oval. Boil, steam, mash, chip, saute, bake or roast.

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.