Latest
Summer 2009 newsletter
Latest issue of the Society newsletter (PDF size 343kb).
Annual site visits, dealing with aphids, rhubarb recipe.
AGM 2008
The 2008 AGM was held on 1st October 2008.
A new Chair, David Shenton, was elected and matters discussed included the search for new sites,
skip policy and the Society's finances.
Compost
The East London Food Recycling Partnership
is offering free compost to local allotments. Phone 020 8986 5608 or
email for details.
Next Committee Meeting
The next committee meeting is at 19.30 on 5th August 2009 at New Church Rooms, St. Mary's Church,
Spensley Walk, N16.
Waiting list update
There are now (as at 29/10/2008) approximately 200 members on the
waiting list for plots. The next 25 numbers are
1029, 1059, 1073, 1078, 1084, 1090, 1102, 1104, 1105, 1111, 1115, 1116, 1120, 1122, 1129,
1132, 1137, 1138, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143, 1145, 1146 and 1150.
Contaminated manure
Powerful industrial herbicide found in manure blights allotment crops.
Read the full story here.
Growing tips
Allotments in the news
- National Trust releases land on some of the best known country estates in Britain for up to 1,000
allotments.
- Follow progress on a newly cultivated organic
allotment.
- In June 2007 a committee member was fortunate to be invited to a friend's dacha
on the outskirts of Lviv in the west of Ukraine. The country's fabled fertile soil and the need
for self-sufficiency gives rise to a landscape of intense cultivation.
- 'A lot to lose: London's disappearing allotments' - a new
report from the London Assembly
highlights the scarcity of allotments in the capital. The report also contains very comprehensive maps
of London wide allotment sites for those with the inclination to search for a site outside the borough.
- A Hackney resident photographed these remarkably plush Danish
allotments on a visit to her homeland in summer 2006.
- Banish the blues with an
allotment
and a packet of seeds.
- Well it sounds easy enough. A thriving
allotment
in just thirty minutes.
- Everyone is doing it. Composting
tips
from a new allotment holder.
- How to tend
five allotments
and have time to write about it.
