Catching up with 2019

It doesn't seem possible 2019 will soon tick over to 2020 and we are posting a reminder about the XMAS mulled wine event, Saturday 7th December together with opening and closing dates for the Trading Hut over the festive period.

As we close out the year we can advise the sign at the top of the site - reminding us all to close the gate has been re - furbished, - a big thank you to Karen and Tony, and an equal measure of thanks to Kevin (plot 77 and 78) for keeping the community orchard in trim. Peter Hunnable is organising to prune the orchard trees early next year, and if you would be interested in learning a little more about the art of pruning, catch up with Peter at the Mulled Wine morning.

The manure orders are being delivered to the site on Monday and Tuesday 9th and 10th October, and we are expecting the seed potato order early February.

Several members attended a talk given by Charles Dowding in relation to his 'no dig' methods, and this is already being attempted on project 63 (to a degree), and on plots 24,45 and 79, but some new members from the Marconi Belles are taking this route on plot 111 and with their blessing we are hoping to follow the progress made.



Ian, Kevin and Alex, the three Allotmenteers, have kindly agreed to provide some information for the web site in 2020 and we are looking forward to these updates. We are hoping further members may take part and hope these snippets have proved to be interesting.



We continue to deliver vegetables to our chosen charity, Sanctus into December, although the car boot full of produce is now down to a couple of mushroom trays, and consists of celeriac, leeks, parsnips, carrots, a final splurge of green peppers from the poly tunnel and some fennel which has proved to be really hardy. I believe we have managed to deliver (with the exception of an odd week) for almost 8 months this year, together with donations from other association members.



Project 63 continued to experiment this year, and a number of the outcomes have been tried by various plot holders. A separate post will follow soon, as we have one last experiment we are waiting to harvest.

We have seen quite a number of new members take plots and join the association and in many cases plenty of positive progress made and we would like to welcome everyone.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the Mulled Wine Morning.