This is to warn you that a large delivery of topsoil for the Children’s Allotment has been left incorrectly in the EWAA car park nearest to Howard Street. The CA is making arrangements to remove it.
Apologies for the inconvenience!
EWAA Committee
Is your plot number clearly visible?
The plot inspection takes place this weekend, so please make sure that your plot number is on display at the front boundary, and is large enough to spot easily.
This is a huge help to the inspection team who need to work their way round the whole site – that’s more than 200 plots!
It doesn’t need to be a fancy sign, just clear.
With thanks in advance.
EWAA Committee
If you’re having trouble with your key
You may find that if you withdraw your key slightly from the lock it then turns easily.
Thank you to several members who have pointed this out.
EWAA Committee
New padlocks on all gates
Because the gate padlocks had become increasingly unreliable they were all replaced yesterday.
KEYS: All existing keys should work. Please leave a message here if yours doesn’t.
STIFFNESS: The new padlocks can be a bit stiff to close. They need a firm push. We are working to make the mechanisms smoother. Please bear with us!
EWAA Committee
1st 2021 Plant Sale – coming soon!
The sales last year of veg, salad, and flower plants grown by Restore were extremely popular, so we’re delighted to announce that the tuk tuk will be back on site before long!
Please put Sunday 23rd May in your diary.
More details of stock, prices, and arrangements will follow when it’s clear exactly which plants will be ready.
EWAA Committee
More Unwanted Items
The allotment is not a suitable place for passing on domestic equipment that is no longer needed. Please DO NOT bring your castoffs onto the site.
If the baby, toddler, and small child items left outside the EWAA Shop are yours, offer them to the general public outside your home instead. And if you know who left them there, please pass on this message.
EWAA Committee
NO BONFIRES on Public Holidays or on Sundays!
Please COMPOST as much as possible — it’s better for our health and for the environment.
The Redbridge re-cycling centre is open 7 days a week.
If you’re convinced that a bonfire is the only solution, check the EWAA rules before you start, and never leave a fire unattended.
EWAA Committee
Neighbourly good practice
As the new growing season gets underway, here are a few things for all of us to keep in mind as we move around the site:
Paths: The narrow paths between plots are not thoroughfares, so please take the long way round and stick to the wide lanes.
Timber: We MUST NOT help ourselves to wood of any kind – timber or branches – from the OUWG site (Boundary Brook Nature Park).
Visitors: You are responsible for anyone you invite onto the allotment site, so do make sure they respect all our rules, and note that Oxford City Council (our landlord) does not permit visiting dogs – only plot-holder pooches please!
Wishing you all a joyful Easter!
EWAA Committee
Preparing the troughs for the growing season
The water supply is running, but a number of the troughs are quite clogged with earth and debris. The Covid-19 restrictions have prevented site work parties for many months, so if anyone has a bit of time to spare and could clean out a nearby trough, that would be much appreciated.
If you do decide to tackle this spring cleaning task, please leave any frog spawn undisturbed, and deposit the silt on a plot rather than leaving it on the grass lane, because that makes mowing tricky.
Thanks you!
EWAA Committee
How to contact other plot-holders
- Are you trying to find the netting that flew off your plot in the recent windy weather?
- Do you have surplus crops to give away?
- Are you hunting for your favourite variety of courgette?
- Do you need advice on plants or cultivation?
You can contact the community of EWAA plot-holders by joining the moderated Facebook group East Ward Allotmenteers Oxford