Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

Knit and Natter Friday 10th April, 2-4 pm in the social hall.

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

TUMBLING TOM RED

(Determinate) A great choice for hanging baskets and other containers, the plants remain reasonably compact and yield masses of really sweet cherry tomatoes. Can be grown in the greenhouse or outdoors.
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.
CRISPUS F1

This is an early to mid-season hybrid with good resistance to club foot. The brussel sprouts are smooth and dark green and are borne on tall plants that stand in good condition for several weeks. They have a wonderful flavour. Sow in spring for an autumn harvest.
EDAMAME SUMMER SHELL

Edamame are the immature pods of soya beans, traditionally eaten whole in Asian cuisine - particularly in Japan where the boiled pods are served as a snack, sprinkled with rock salt and enjoyed with a cold beer! They are packed with protein, essential amino acids, calcium and vitamins. Easy to grow, reaching 60cm/2ft in height they don't require support and each pod will yield 3 seeds on average. DO NOT eat RAW beans or pods.

Earth up first early potatoes and plant out second early and main crop potatoes
Sow french beans and runner beans indoors in 3” pots.
Transplant seedlings of leeks, onions and early summer cabbages and protect with cloches.
Sow Swiss chard, beetroot, autumn cabbages, celeriac, peas, radishes, early lettuce, turnips and swedes direct outside.