Wishing everyone a healthy and productive growing year. Here are some dates to keep in mind for the year ahead:
2 April – Rent is due for the forthcoming year. Please read the details of how to make payment and to find out how your rents are used
April – The water supply will be turned back on after the risk of frost has passed. Please read the guidance around water usage
1 June – No bonfires (or any other burning) is allowed on site from 1 June onwards. This applies to the summer months of June, July and August, and includes the first week of September
8 September – Bonfires are allowed on the site from 8 September until 31 May. Please read the rules and guidance around bonfiresbefore burning
September – Kings Seed Catalogue becomes available. Please speak to a Committee Member about receiving a copy of the catalogue and order form
September – Seed potatoes and onion sets order form becomes available. Please speak to a Committee Member for details
1 October – Cut off date for returning Kings Seed and Scottish seed potato order forms and payment
November – The site water supply will be turned off towards the end of November to avoid burst pipes.
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The allotment store is currently stocking the following compost, manure, fertilisers and soil conditioners. We also sell twine, slug pellets, plant labels and 8ft garden canes. Please let a committee member know if you would like access to the Allotment Store.
Growmore
A great general purpose fertiliser
A popular compound fertiliser – use as a general purpose fertiliser.
Contains the three major nutrients essential for strong and healthy growth.
Promotes heavy crops of fruit and vegetables, balanced vigorous plants and beautiful flowers.
Flowers: 140g/m² prior to sowing or planting.
For established plants 70g/m² as a top dressing at 8 – 10 week intervals
For other vegetables 140g/m²
For shrubs, fruit trees and bushes: 70-140g/m² when planting mix with infill, depending on size of plant.
For all crops 70g/m² sprinkled evenly between the rows at 8 -10 week intervals.
New Lawns 140g/m² forked into the top 8cm of soil before sowing grass seed or laying turf.
Produced for over 30 years, an 100% organic fertiliser is composted, milled and oven heated at over 200°C to produce a safe and economical product. It’s weed free, easy and safe to handle – but a bit smelly!
Firstly read the back of the bag…
Conditions the soil but breaks down clay and takes the backache out of gardening.
It’s safe with lime haters and no matter what conditions your soil, hard sticky clay, sand or even dust.
It’s ideal for lawns, roses, flowers, vegetables, fruit and shrubs.
It can be used as a compost accelerator
Will produce healthy bumper crops of fruit, vegetables, flowers and plants – year in and year out!
One 40 litre bag of Groworganic will treat up to 210 square metres
Fish, Blood and Bone is a balanced organically based fertiliser in powder form.
The nitrogen in Fish, Blood and Bone encourages strong growth and healthy rich green foliage, whilst the slow release of phosphate promotes vigorous root growth.
The added potash promotes flower colour and improves ripening of fruit and vegetables it provides the major nutrients required for strong healthy growth.
Ideal for all round use – shrubs, vegetables, root crops and herbaceous plants.
Fish, Blood & Bone provides both a rapid boost and long-lasting results so a single application lasts up to six weeks to keep plants in best condition and encourage flowering.
Maxicrop Liquid Seaweed Feed is a brilliant organic plant growth stimulant made from pure seaweed extract, containing natural plant growth stimulants, in an easy to use liquid form. Bumper crops of growing your own fruit and vegetables
Soil Association approved for use in organic production
Seaweed extract stimulates beneficial soil microbes, which results in an improved root system to take up more soil nutrients and water.
Seaweed also helps to keep leaves greener, with more chlorophyll, to improve the use of sunlight energy for carbohydrate production.
April 2022 – Mains water has now been turned on. Please follow the rules and guidance around using water on your plot.
Please follow the guidance below concerning Legionnaires’ disease when using hosepipes that have been out of use for a while.
In February 2019, a 63 year old gardener died from Legionnaires’ Disease. He used his hosepipe in his garden earlier in the year but didn’t drain it after use. The water left in the hosepipe stagnated outside in the sun and became contaminated with high levels of bacteria. The man then inhaled the bacteria sprayed out in the water when he used it. Tests on the hosepipe confirmed Legionella bacteria.
The National Allotment Societyhas issued the below advice for the use of hosepipes on allotments which we would ask you to take note of and follow the advice:
Legionella likes to grow in water in warm conditions over 20c. It needs nutrients to grow so wet slimy surfaces are ideal for the bacteria to flourish:
Try to drain your hosepipe after every use & keeping the hosepipe cool and out of the sun will help reduce the risk of bacteria growing ·
To avoid creating ‘aerosols’ formed by water spray, when you use the hosepipe GENTLY run water through the hose with NO spray attachment on the end.
Legionella can also be found in compost:
Avoid storing compost in a greenhouse which can get very warm.
Open a bag of compost carefully (wear a mask if possible).
Wear gloves when handling compost & wash hands thoroughly after use.
PLEASE NOTE: Hosepipes are to be used only for filling water butts, which must be covered. Please read therules and guidance about water usage on your plot.
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Wolverhampton Horticultural Society promote a range of different activities for everyone interested in gardening. They host monthly talks provided by gardening experts at Beckminster Church Hall, Birches Barn Road, Bradmore on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 7pm.
First session free at Wolverhampton Horticultural Society
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