The big white skip in the Children’s Allotment area behind our shop was paid for by that group and is for their use only. Please don’t dump rubbish in it. If you are responsible for the items already left in it and now in front of the shop please arrange to remove them from the site. Thanks.
Seed Potatoes now in stock
Varieties for sale:
| Duke of York (First Early) |
| Colleen (First Early Blight Resistant) |
| Nadine (Second Early) |
| Charlotte (Salad) |
| International Kidney (Salad) |
| Cara (Main Blight Resistant) |
| Desiree (Main) |
| King Edward (Main) |
Pick ‘n Mix – £1.00/kg. Please bring your own bag(s)
Frogspawn survey!
If you have a pond on your plot or in your garden, this is for you! the PondNet Spawn Survey is collecting data on the breeding success of frogs and toads around the country, and they want to know about your pond. Download details and input your info here: https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/projects/pondnet/spawnsurvey2019/
In Allotment Shop now – Garlic / Onions / Shallots / Peas / Beans
We have just taken delivery of the following:
Garlic – Picardy Wight
Garlic – Solent Wight
Pea – Onward
Pea – Hurst Greenshaft
Pea – Oregon Sugar Pod
French Bean – Borlotti
Runner Bean – Enorma
Shallot – Red Sun
Onion – Sturon Globe
Onion – Karmen
Hedge Laying / Coppicing courses at Boundary Brook Nature Reserve
BBOWT/OUWG are running a series of Hedge Laying and Coppicing courses at Boundary Brook Nature Reserve in February, open to all, and free. Click on link below for further details:
Boundary Brook Events Feb 2019
Potato fair
Happy New Year! It’s been good to see so many of you down on site getting things organised.
A reminder that while our shop reopens this Sunday from 11-12, the Pennard Potato Fair is on again in Oxford also on Sunday, 10.30 til 1.30 at the West Oxford Community Centre. 60+ varieties of seed potatoes to choose from and other items too
The Children’s Allotment Festive Social event – 15th December
Dear All,
Our neighbours at the Children’s Allotment (behind the EWAA shop) are having a winter warmer next weekend, please see details below and do offer them your support.
Best wishes,
the EWAA team
Dear Allotment holders
We would like to let you know about our festive social event, which will be happening on Saturday the 15th of December from 3-5pm. We would very much welcome you to join us!
We expect to welcome volunteers and members of the public onto the Children’s Allotment site for a bonfire and story-telling event. There will also be refreshments and games! During this time we may have the main gate open but will be monitoring people coming in (we are asking for a donation from non-allotment members for entry as we are fundraising for the project).
If you’d like to find out more about what we are up to please come along and say hi!
More information is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/113197376267340/
All the best
Alice and the Children’s Allotment team!
Diary dates and potato fair
The shop will be open this week and next, then we will take a break over Christmas and the New Year, re-opening on the 6th of Jan.
You’ll be wanting to be getting back to the allotment after all that indoor activitiy and in the nick of time the ODFAA seed potato day will also be on the 6th of Jan, 10.30 til 1.30 at West Oxford Community Centre with 60 varieties of potato and other fancy stuff for sale.
Work Party Weekend
Thanks to everyone who helped on Saturday and Sunday to clear, clip and cut our way through undergrowth and rubbish!
The site is looking much improved and as a result of all the hard work, we have created a new access path to the social area on the middle road, cleared the car parks, and, cleared pathways.
Thanks also to the cake-makers who made this an enjoyable social event.
If you didn’t make it to a work party this year, do come along next time; it really is an enjoyable and rewarding way to spend a morning, and, you’ll get to know some fellow allotment members.
Compost delivery
We have had a delivery of compost from the Oxford City Parks Department, with piles located at the top of each road. It’s £1.00 per barrowload. 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.