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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

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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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    KING EDWARD

    This old traditional English favourite needs good soil to do well and crops are more modest than some but it's well worth growing. Long growing season.Boil, steam, mash, chip, saute, bake or roast.

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    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.

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    IRONMAN

    An outstandingly vigorous variety which yields tasty and uniform dome-shaped blue-green heads. High tolerance to common diseases. This top quality variety is suitable for closer spacings if growing for baby heads.

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    RED SPARK

    A quality hybrid which produces uniform, round bulbs with a deep red colour. It has excellent skin quality and good flavour and will store well.

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.