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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Next Social Event - Sun 5th July Summer Celebration

Tidy Up Site Morning - Sat 11th July 12th September

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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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    CHANTENAY RED CORED

    Recommended for producing baby chantenay carrots, approx 50mm/2in long - wonderful raw in salads or lightly boiled or steamed. Left, they will mature to produce 130-150mm long roots. The carrot has wide shoulders, is conical in shape with a stump end.

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    BIG MAMA

    (Semi-determinate) Prolific crops of large plum shaped paste tomatoes. It can produce fruits up to 140g each. The skin will peel easily after par-boiling and the flesh is delicious used in soups, sauces and salsa dips. Can be grown in the greenhouse or outdoors.

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    SOLEISON

    Not only is this one of the most naturally healthy lettuces we know, but it produces impressive, dense hearts even with the minimum of attention. This home-grown 'iceberg' has a real lettuce flavour to complement its superbly succulent and crisp texture.

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    DWARF GREEN CURLED

    Dwarf habit with closely curled leaves. A superb source of tasty and highly nutritious autumn, winter and spring 'greens'. Resistant to very bad winter conditions.

Tomato truss

Jobs for this Month - July

  1. Plant out any remaining seedlings raised in spring/early summer.

  2. Pinch out side sheets of cordon tomatoes and feed with liquid tomato fertilizer.

  3. Remove tips of climbing beans if they have reached the top of their supports.

  4. Spray potatoes and tomatoes with fungicide such as Bordeaux mixture to prevent blight.