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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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    MARKETMORE 76

    A great choice for outdoor cropping, where it will produce plenty of 20cm/8in long, dark green-skinned straight fruits with a proper cucumber flavour. The plants show some resistance to powdery and downy mildews.

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    BORLOTTO

    An Italian variety whose green pods are liberally splashed with red, used as a conventional dwarf bean when young and tender or left to mature as 'haricots'.

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    RED BARON

    The very best red globe onion, it has a rich and uniform skin colour and a really old fashioned, strong onion flavour. Red Baron is also a wonderful keeper and popular on the show bench.

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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.

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.