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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.

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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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    WHITE LISBON

    The traditional "Spring" onion. White Lisbon boast long white stems with bright green tops that are slow to form a bulb, which contain a delicious mild flavour. Sow little and often from March to July to ensure a fresh, regular supply .

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    SCARLET GLOBE

    Scarlet Globe Radish is a favourite traditional variety giving lovely round roots of bright red and is suitable for early cropping under cloches. Has a lovely flavour and retains its crispness well.

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    BURPLESS TASTY GREEN

    Burpless Tasty Green produces long slender fruits of excellent flavour. It is highly digestable and bitter free. Fruits can reach up to 20-30cm (10-12in) in length and the flesh is tender and crisp. Use support when grown outside or indoors.

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    ONION DE PARIS

    Onion de Paris gives a delicious crop of small, rather flat, white-skinned bulbs which are perfect either for pickling or adding to casseroles or salads. It has a good, full flavour.

Seedlings

Jobs for this Month - April

  1. Earth up first early potatoes and plant out second early and main crop potatoes

  2. Sow french beans and runner beans indoors in 3” pots.

  3. Transplant seedlings of leeks, onions and early summer cabbages and protect with cloches.

  4. Sow Swiss chard, beetroot, autumn cabbages, celeriac, peas, radishes, early lettuce, turnips and swedes direct outside.