Come along to the EWAA shop with your apple harvest for our:
Get collecting your apples and bring them along. We will be making cider and apple juice.
Bring a couple of screw-top bottles if possible.
Any questions – email Meryl at ewaa-oxford@hotmail.co.uk.
We also have a delivery of farmyard manure, with piles located at the top of each road. It’s £2.50 per barrowload (the supplier has increased his charges this year). Please pay at the shop on Sunday, or put in an envelope with plot number on it, in the letterbox or under the door of the shop.
A limited supply of mushroom compost is now available in the shop at £3 per bag. Each bag is 50lb (approx 100 litres), and contains wood-free compost which has been used to grow organically produced mushrooms. Spent mushroom compost is one of the best soil conditioners going. It is rich in nutrients and adds humus to the soil, making it much more easily worked.
We now have onion sets (35p / 100g) , Aquadulca broad beans (35p / 100g) and more brassica seedlings (£1.50 / tray of 9 ) in the shop, which is open from 11 to 12 on Sunday
Dear All,
It’s that time again! The Annual General Meeting of the Allotment Association will be held on Sunday 30th September, at 10 am in the Allotment Shop. We are proposing a small rent rise to cover increasing costs, but ours will remain one of the lowest rents in the city.
Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there – this is your opportunity to hear about the work the EWAA committee do to keep the site running effectively and to ask any questions. If you may be interested in joining the committee, please do email us, or chat to a committee member in the shop or on site – we particularly need someone to take on the secretary role, including maintaining the website.
Following the AGM, rents will come due, and we will be taking payments in the shop on the 7th and the 14th of October from 11 until 1.
As well as our usual stock, we have more seedlings from the Cuttleslowe Park Garden Project, at £1.50 per tray of 9 plants:
Hope to see you at the shop!
We have had requests in the past for lists of jobs for people keen to help out but not able to get to our work parties. So, if you are up for a bit of extra activity beyond your own plot, please do cut back the brambles that are encroaching on the woodchip piles in the car park. They can be piled up at the very back, or taken to the front of plot 1 for burning later. Do wear gloves and keep an eye out for sharp objects in the heaps. Thanks!
We were very sorry to hear that Bob Vranges passed away recently. Mr and Mrs Vranges have held their immaculate plot for many many years, and it can be seen above. Our sympathy and best wishes to the Vranges family at this sad time.
Now that we have had some rain, with more expected from tomorrow, bonfire rules return to normal (ie, fires are permitted after 6pm or dusk if sooner, and not on Sundays). Plotholders must ensure that fires are completely out before leaving, and take care that no dry vegetation nearby can catch fire. Please minimise your need to burn items by composting and recycling.
These guidelines are from Cam Parish Council, but apply equally in Oxford:
If after having carefully considered the alternatives you still decide to have a bonfire, there are some
guidelines that will help to ensure that you don’t cause a nuisance:
Always observe the simple courtesy of letting your neighbours know when you intent to light the
fire.
Only burn dry material and never burn household rubbish or anything with plastic, foam, paint or
rubber in it. Do not take rubbish to the site to burn.
Never use old engine oil, methylated spirits, or petrol to light or encourage a fire. Not only does this
make smoke, it is also very dangerous.
Avoid lighting fires in unsuitable weather conditions such as damp, still days.
Avoid times when the wind will blow smoke over roads or into neighbour’s gardens.
Avoid burning when people want to enjoy their gardens such as at weekends or Bank Holidays.
Air Pollution is described using four bands – LOW, MODERATE, HIGH and VERY HIGH. Avoid burning
when air pollution in the area is anything other than Low. You can check this at the DEFRA Air
Information Resource at https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/which provides daily forecast levels of air
pollution.
Always check the stack intended for burning to look for hibernating hedgehogs or other animals that
may be in it.
Never leave a fire unattended or leave it to smoulder.
Never use water to douse a bonfire. It may appear as if the fire has been safely put out but the water
only serves to superheat the ashes and they could re-ignite some hours later. When you have to
leave the bonfire site always throw soil or sand over it to smother the heat source.
Bear in mind the law of statutory nuisance; regular smoky bonfires – or even a
single one which is very polluting – could be regarded as a statutory nuisance and result in a legal
notice being served on you by the Council.