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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

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

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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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    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.

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    AMAZON

    Fast growing, for baby leaf or mature plants. Dark green colour. Resistant to downy mildew, slow to bolt.

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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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    MARIS PIPER

    A reliable general purpose choice producing tubers that show good resistance to eelworm and are a national favourite. Great beginner variety. Colour - white. Shape - oval. Boil, steam, mash, chip, saute, bake or roast.

Seedlings

Jobs for this Month - April

  1. Earth up first early potatoes and plant out second early and main crop potatoes

  2. Sow french beans and runner beans indoors in 3” pots.

  3. Transplant seedlings of leeks, onions and early summer cabbages and protect with cloches.

  4. Sow Swiss chard, beetroot, autumn cabbages, celeriac, peas, radishes, early lettuce, turnips and swedes direct outside.