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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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    RISING SUN

    A 'Supersweet' variety bred to mature quickly for a shorter growing season. Shows good vigour in cold conditions and resistance to common diseases, for high quality, reliable crops of large and deliciously sweet kernels. Proven to be a reliable performer in the unpredictable British summers.

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    MARATHON

    One of the most reliable and long cropping of summer broccolis with fine quality, tasty heads, its ability to do well in nearly all soils and its splendid disease resistances. It is possible to be cutting the heads from June right through until late autumn. An all round great performer!

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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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    CLARION

    An outstanding, soft-leaved lettuce, producing tasty heads of medium size. Very good for both early and late sowings, it is virus-tolerant and resistant to 10 strains of mildew.

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.