Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Social Event - BBQ, cakes, drinks and the opportunity to meet others on Monday 4th May (Bank Holiday)

More details will follow soon, but for now please save the date.

Forms

The new place to find all our current forms
Renting a Plot

Looking to rent an allotment plot? Look here for more information
Trading Hut

The trading hut is open to our plot holders and green finger members

Growing Guides

ROMANESCO

Romanesco has big round bulbs weighing between 500g and a massive1kg. It has a high bolting resistance and is best grown for late cropping.
SAFARI

A quick maturing plant producing great crop of uniform stringless beans on dwarf plants. Beans are about 5 inches long and are very tasty. Plants have good disease resistance.
POMPEI

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

A robust spicy taste that will not disappoint! Best planted October to mid December, it multiplies well to give a good crop of long, grey-skinned bulbs in June.

Earth up first early potatoes and plant out second early and main crop potatoes
Sow french beans and runner beans indoors in 3” pots.
Transplant seedlings of leeks, onions and early summer cabbages and protect with cloches.
Sow Swiss chard, beetroot, autumn cabbages, celeriac, peas, radishes, early lettuce, turnips and swedes direct outside.