Annual General Meeting

Invited: All Plotholders and Gardening Club

At: Communal plot 194 by main gates, Northfields Allotments

Time: 7.30pm

Agenda

1.     Apologies for absence
2.     Approval of AGM 2022 minutes
3.     The committee's Annual report 
4.     EDAS Annual accounts 
5.     Election of new committee   
6.     Any other business

Nominations for the Committee have closed.

Free seed workshop

A fun and informative session on planting seeds for our Gardening Club members and volunteers.

It's being run by plotholder Christina Fox, an experienced grower who workers for the charity Trees for Cities.

The 45-minutes session will cover everything you need to get your seeds growing, including:

  • Soil and compost
  • Good timing and succession sowing
  • Leggy seedlings
  • Protection
  • Hardy and half hardy plants
  • Seed storage

You will need a bring a packet of seeds with you.

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Summer Open Day

On Sunday 7th July we are opening our gates to the public for a day, inviting the local community to enjoy our allotment site. Gates will open at 1pm and the event will run until 5pm.

There will be tea, homemade cakes, a BBQ and a bar, and you can buy plants and fruit we’ve grown, and jams and preserves made by our plotholders with fruit from their plots.

Restoring a vintage shed

A few years ago, Simon Coleman found an old shed at the south end of Northfields allotments. Here he explains what it took to restore it

Never on a Sunday

While digging in the archives, Simon Coleman discovered that plotholders were once banned from gardening on Sundays

The Grape Store

A heritage feature has been created at Northfield allotments, with thanks to the plot holders for allowing it to be restored. The shed has been restored by Simon Coleman, keeping its original shape and feel. This old shed was crammed with fruit boxes. The boxes were probably used to store vegetables or fruit on the plot. The large grape vine on the plot where the shed was built may hint at the fruit the boxes stored in summers past on our historic allotment.