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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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    MONARCH

    Quite smooth skinned and an improvement on earlier strains. Very easy to grow, producing high quality roots with excellent flavour. Perfect added to hearty soups and stews, but also great grated and added to winter salads!

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    CARGO

    British bred to crop well throughout the UK, with resistance to powdery mildew. Produces impressive 6-10kg/13-22lb fruits with tasty flesh and is great for carving at Halloween.

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    RUCOLA

    A superb salad vegetable and a superior strain to the traditional type with leaves of a delicious rich spicy flavour.

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    IGLOO

    Igloo Cauliflower is an early variety with good, clean, white heads. Specially bred for close planting to produce mini-cauliflowers or at wider spacing for larger heads.

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.