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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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    RED TIDE

    A hybrid red onion of excellent quality and storage capabilities, ideal for adding colour to salads.

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    ROMANESCO

    Romanesco has big round bulbs weighing between 500g and a massive1kg. It has a high bolting resistance and is best grown for late cropping.

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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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    SALAD ROCKET

    A definite must for any summer salad. Rocket Salad boasts delicious spicy dark green leaves which are very simple to grow. The best way to grow this seed is to sow successionally and can be used as a cut and come again variety.

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.