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Addiscombe Woodside & Shirley Leisure Gardens

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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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    PENTLAND JAVELIN

    Colour - white. Shape - oval. Easy to grow; eelworm resistance RO1. A popular early variety that is favoured for its tasty, white, waxy-fleshed tubers. New, boil, steam or saute - it does not discolour when cold.

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    HISPI F1

    This RHS AGM variety is a strong and uniform pointed type, with a beautifully sweet flavour. Cabbage 'Hispi' has good bolt resistance and needs little growing space so it is ideal for growing in small gardens where space is at a premium.

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    SAFARI

    A quick maturing plant producing great crop of uniform stringless beans on dwarf plants. Beans are about 5 inches long and are very tasty. Plants have good disease resistance.

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    MARIS PEER

    A national favourite with firm texture; high numbers. A familiar second early producing a large crop of round, small/medium, white-fleshed tubers that are waxy and tasty. Colour - white. Shape- short oval. New, boil, steam or chip.

Lettuces

Jobs for this Month - June

  1. Plant out tender crops such as courgettes, squash and pumpkins.

  2. Sow successional carrots, beetroots, lettuces and radishes.

  3. Continue to earth-up shoots of growing potatoe plants.

  4. Harvest early lettuces, radishes and new potatoes.