Dates for your diary
Seedy Sunday
18 March, 11.00–1.00
Swap and buy seeds, and register for our pumpkin and sunflower competitions
Seedling Sale
20 May, 11.00–1.00
Buy all those seedlings you didn't manage to germinate! Including giant pumpkin seedlings for the pumpkin competition
Autumn Social and Produce Show
16 September, 12.00–2.00
The biggest and best of our veg, fruit, pumpkins and sunflowers. BBQ and drinks, grand raffle, children's activities, and scarecrows. Loads of home-made produce - get out your best jams and chutneys!
Christmas cafe
Plenty of hungry, thirsty plotholders turned up on Sunday 18th December for our annual Christmas cafe. They swooped like parakeets on the spread of delicious cakes and mince pies.
No snow this year, sadly – but plenty of Santa hats to make up for it. Take a look at resident paparazzi
Jenny Bourne's photos.
Annual General Meeting
Read all about this year’s AGM, which took place on 10th November.
Check out who’s on the newly elected Plotholders’ Committee.
And find out who won the hotly contested awards for this year’s
champion plots.
Autumn Social and Produce Show
This year's annual celebration was a huge success: a big turn-out and lots of fun.
Take a look at the pictures in our
Photo gallery.
And read all about the competition prize-winners.
Free manure and woodchips
Regular deliveries of royal manure and woodchips are now arriving. Help yourself from plot 126.
The woodchips are ideal for paths but shouldn't be used as a mulch on beds until they have completely composted down - which may take up to six months.
What to do this month
What should you be sowing and planting now?
What crops should be ready for harvesting?
What jobs need doing on your plot?
Find out in our month-by-month calendar of what to do and when.
Your photos
Portraits of fellow plotholders proudly displaying their horticultural successes.
Inspirational images of nature’s bounty.
Or candid shots of the less savoury aspects of allotment life.
Our photo galleries feature all these – and more.
