Newsletters
We have been publishing a regular newsletter since 1998. Here you will find the most recent back issues available for download. The editorial team would love to hear from anybody wishing to help with the forthcoming editions. We’re always looking for contributions – especially photographs.
Email Jenny Bourne:
newsletter@paddocks-allotments.org.uk.
Newsletter No. 37 October 2011
Contents include:
- Autumn Social and Produce Show report
- Forthcoming AGM
- Committee news
- Christmas Cafe
- Sue Croft - channel swimmer
- Rebuilding of the park wall
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 36 May 2011
Contents include:
- Seedling sale report
- Tackling the clubroot menace
- Security
- Pump workshop
- Seedy Sunday
- Barbara Wood farewell interview
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 35 Christmas 2010
Contents include:
- AGM report
- News from your committee
- First frost of the winter
- 2010 Autumn Social
- Tarragon of Virtue
- Soil know-how
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 34 Summer 2010
Contents include:
- Keeping our water pumps working
- News from your committee
- All-new website
- Seedling sale picture gallery
- Hedging and coppicing
- Summer pest watch
- Book review
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 33 Winter 2009/10
Contents include:
- Prizewinners 2009
- Aminopyralid is back!
- New faces on the committee
- Autumn Social picture gallery
- “Tarragon of Virtue”, chapter one
- Winter pruning
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 32 Autumn 2009
Contents include:
- New site shed
- Autumn Social
- More monthly workdays
- Pumpkin carving
- Home-made fungicide
- Green manures
- Chutney recipes
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 31 Spring 2009
Contents include:
- Fire!
- Monthly workdays
- February snow
- Site security
- Life underground: get to know your earthworms
- Bring in the bees
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 30 Winter 2008/09
Contents include:
- George Loosemore: 2008 cup winner
- Inside our composting toilet
- The native hedge
- Jobs for winter and spring
- Highlights of the Autumn Social
- Couch potato shopping
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
Newsletter No. 29 Summer 2008
Contents include:
- Seedling sale
- Our water supply
- New constitution
- Gardening for climate change
- Book reviews
- Pigeons
- Recipes
- The upside-down world of gardening
To view/download this newsletter, click on the front cover thumbnail to the right.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). See foot of page for more information.
These newsletters are in Portable Document Format (pdf). Most computers already have a pdf reader installed but if not the Adobe reader can be downloaded from here.