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

TROMBONE

Slow growing, smooth leaf spinach with dark leaves. Has a good bolt tolerance and flexibity in sowing times at both ends of the season, making it ideal for home gardeners. Use as mature leaf or as baby leaf.
JANUARY KING

A very popular variety, distinguished by its rather flat head and red-tinged outer leaves. Plants are very hardy and will tolerate even the worst of the winter weather. The flavour is also excellent.
TRIOMPHANT

This cauliflower is just for Christmas and January too. The dense, pure white curds remain well protected by foliage. If you like the idea of home-grown cauliflower as part of your Christmas lunch look no further than this outstanding variety.
WHITE LISBON WINTER HARDY

This is a variety that produces the same onion as White Lisbon but has been selected specifically for its winter hardiness making it suitable only for autumn sowing for a spring harvest. The onions that are produced have long white stems with bright green tops and are slow to form a bulb, which contains a delicious mild flavour.

Harden off and begin planting out indoor raised seedlings; protect susceptible plants from slugs and snails.
Sow french beans, runner beans, carrots, cabbages, beetroots and salad crops outdoors - protected with cloches or fleece if frosts threaten.
Plant any remaining seed potatoes and earth-up shoots of growing potatoe plants.
Tie in peas to sticks or canes; pinch out tips of early broad beans to discourage aphids.