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
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
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
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
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
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
You can contact the community of EWAA plot-holders by joining the moderated Facebook group East Ward Allotmenteers Oxford
Much to everyone’s relief, the ground is now firm enough for vehicles to use the lanes. Please respect the following:
EWAA Committee
The weekend set for the next inspection of plots is May 1st~2nd.
The Cultivation Guidelines are published here.
If you have any queries, please contact the Membership Secretary on membership@ewaa.org.uk
EWAA Committee
Dear Members,
Our neighbours at the OUWG, who manage the nature park, generously provide EWAA allotment members with a supply of peasticks each spring, in the form of hazel branches coppiced in the autumn.
From Sunday (March 21st) this year’s supply will be left just inside the gate that leads from the shop lane onto the OUWG land, to the left as you stand with your back to the shop. The pile will be clearly signed, so plot-holders are welcome to help themselves.
NB – There is an extensive planting project underway on the Boundary Brook Nature Reserve, so please do not remove wood or vegetation from any other spot.
EWAA Committee