Andy Howard
of the Heritage Fruit tree company will be at the Cripley Meadow allotments AGM at St Barnabas on March 14th selling in the car park from 6-7pm. Members of East Ward allotments (EWAA) are welcome to come along to the car park – contact johoward@metronet.co.uk for a pdf catalogue or see www.heritagefruittrees.co.uk for more info. Andy will have limited stock on site so it is best to pre-order and collect.
A one day course on community plant breeding, teaching how to save your own seed, and the skills needed to improve your vegetable varieties and create that elusive perfect tomato/lettuce/oca you can never find in the seed catalogues. Course tutors include Kate McEvoy from the Real Seed company. The course date is Sat 16th April; details can be found here: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/Q100-147.
We have load of the black stuff from the Parks Department in a big pile by the shop, come and get it!
£1 per barrow-load, max 3 barrows per plot, please pay in the shop on the following Sunday morning.
It looks pretty good – generally well rotted and crumbly, just a fe
w lumps and sticks here and there…..
Free bean poles and pea sticks from our own coppiced hazel!
Available now at the play area on the middle road, please help yourself.