Shop open Easter Sunday

The EWAA shop is open this weekend, Easter Sunday 11:00-12:00.

It’s time to get your spuds in, and the ground might be a bit softer now after the rain. We still have some seed potatoes left, ready-sprouted and keen to be planted:

  • First earlies: Swift, Duke of York, Caledonian Pearl
  • Second earlies: Wilja
  • Maincrop: Marvel

There is a wide variety of seeds for both vegetables and flowers, and plenty of compost to sow them into.

The shop has a lot besides – soil improvement, pest control, crop protection, ground cover, canes, and all sorts of bits and pieces. See a full list here.

See you on Sunday! And every Sunday until August, 11:00-12:00.

New stock has arrived!

As tomorrow is the last Sunday in March the Shop will still be open for two hours between 10 and 12 – don’t forget that the clocks go forward tonight!

Sales at the start of the season were brisk and various item ran out, but fresh supplies arrived this week:

  • Fish, Blood, and Bone Meal
  • John Innes seed compost
  • Big Tom tomato growbags
  • 8ft canes
  • Moth traps for plum trees or for apples trees

NB – supplies of seed potatoes won’t be replenished!

EWAA Shop Officer

Reminder: sharing our allotment space

Please show consideration for your fellow plotholders and for the neighbouring residents while on site. In particular, be aware of:

NOISE — music, radio, phone calls, power tools, mowers, dogs, children, or any other loud and persistent noise.

One person’s choice of music may not be someone else’s – please consider wearing headphones.

BOUNDARIES —don’t leave tools, weeds, clippings, etc. on boundaries or extend over them with constructions or compost heaps.

Access should always be maintained along the boundaries.

Water supply turned back on

The mains water supply to the tanks has been turned back on. If anyone has time to clean out any silt sitting in their nearest water tank, that would be greatly appreciated. You can use silt to improve the soil on your plot.

  • Please take care to turn the taps off firmly, and never leave the tap running unless you are nearby. The water on site is metered, so when tanks overflow it costs the Association money.
  • Never wash tools or produce in the tanks because this spreads disease. Use a bucket of water instead.
  • Please consider harvesting and storing water on your own plot, e.g. in a water butt, to help keep the Association’s water bill down.

Mowing & Mowers

MOWING: There is a small but dwindling group of volunteers who mow the grass lanes and communal areas across the allotment site, so we’re looking for another person to help out, on the Shop Lane in particular. If you feel comfortable using petrol machines and would be happy to lend a hand, it would be great to hear from you!

MOWERS: The EWAA has some petrol machines for doing this work, but we are short of someone who could check them regularly, and take them to Horspath and back when they need servicing. If you know your way round a mower, could that be you?

For an informal chat and to find out more please send a message using the General Enquiry option on the form at Contact Us.

EWAA Committee

ONION SETS FOR SPRING PLANTING

The EWAA is not stocking onion sets this spring because there has been so much wastage in the last couple of years. But you can find them in several local shops, for example:

  1. The Garden – Covered Market
  2. Headington Homewares – Windmill Road
  3. The Range (ex-Homebase) – Horspath Driftway

EWAA Shop Officer

Vehicle access now permitted

The weather is slowly improving and many members are waiting to deliver bulky items to their plots, so vehicles are again allowed on site. However, the ground is still soft and the grass lanes are easily damaged. The Shop Lane has become particularly narrow, with eroded edges and hazardous drops down onto the plots. So please note the following dos and don’ts, and show consideration to your fellow plotholders.

  • Meet and accompany any delivery driver at all times when s/he is on site
  • Unload your delivery as quickly as possible, and then park your vehicle outside the site gates if you are staying
  • Make sure that cyclists can get past
  • No Parking on the lanes or on the Social Area (Middle Lane)
  • No U-turns – ask someone to guide you, and either reverse in and drive out, or drive in and reverse out.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

EWAA Committee

No vehicles on site until further notice!

The ground is waterlogged at the moment so the weight of vehicles damages our grass lanes, and makes driving on the site unsafe. Thankfully, a dry spell of weather has been forecast for the coming weeks. We will let you know as soon as the surface is stable enough enough, so please look out for a further update.

In the meantime:

  • Respect the notices on the gates
  • Leave your vehicles outside
  • Don’t let any delivery vehicle through the site gates

Thank you for your understanding!

EWAA Committee

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