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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Copies of our book ‘A Potted History’ all about the history of AWSLG are still on sale in the trading hut

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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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    SARPO MIRA

    This late maincrop produces a large yield of red, oval potatoes that can store for a long period of time in the right conditions. Potato Sarpo Mira is a great all-rounder for all culinary dishes with its flavoursome floury taste.

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    SUNBURST

    A bright yellow-skinned Patty Pan type, this high yielding variety yields squashes with a fine flavour and texture. Rather ornamental when growing.

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    SUGAR SNAP

    Three peas for the price of one! Pick very young as mangetout, maturing pods can be picked and cooked whole like French beans, or leave until mature and shell them like 'normal' peas. Really tasty however you choose to eat them.

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    GUARDSMAN

    A very vigorous development of salad onions. Upright, good looking and winter hardy, it produces a good length of 'white'. Suitable for both autumn and spring sowing, it is slow to bolt and resistant to white rot.

Chitting

Jobs for this Month - February

  1. Complete the winter digging of your plot introducing well-rotted manure or compost where needed.

  2. Buy seed potatoes and chit them in a bright, warm (frost free) spot keeping the eyes upwards.

  3. Buy and plant out onion sets, shallots and garlic.