Plant Sales day – Sunday 23 May

image showing types of vegetables on sale on 23 May 2021

We will be holding a plant sales day on Sunday 23rd May between 11am – 2pm.   There are lots of vegetable plants for your allotment including:

  • cucumbers
  • tomatoes
  • beans
  • sweetcorn
  • squash
  • courgette
  • pumpkin

We will be taking cash or Members can pay by BACS.

The shop will also be open and we have new deliveries of new horizon peat free compost at £5.50 and large tomato grow bags at

Community Spruce days – what we achieved in March

Thank you to everybody who helped at our March Community Spruce days.  Here’s what we achieved:

  •  site plant nursery area cleared and flower seeds planted
  • the communal polytunnel has a new cover
  • broken metal shed taken down
  • trees and new hedging planted
  • wildlife garden paths lined with logs
  • brambles cut back in the wildlife garden
  • potholes filled
  • litter picked
  • plants by clubhouse pruned
  • grass cut around the site and in the secret garden
  • new plots marked out
  • Woodland walk was created
  • waste wood burnt and prunings shredded

We will be holding more community spruce days in April.

Wildlife spotted on site

White Egret in the river

Our members record some of the wildlife spotted on site on a board by the Clubhouse.

This is what has been seen:

  • Fleck Fieldfares
  • Goshawk (male)
  • Pair of Egrets (see video here)
  • Group long tailed tits
  • Pheasant
  • Slow worms
  • Newts
  • Comma butterfly
  • Peacock butterfly
  • Foxes

Photos

Here are some photos of wildlife sent by members.

Comma butterfly

Slow worms
Newts