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First Impressions – a year with an allotment

The phone call came out of the blue. 'Dad, I have taken on an allotment, would you like to give me a hand?' 'Yes of course' I said, without stopping to think what this might involve. My experience of growing vegetables was confined to container grown Tumbling Tom...

2012 A difficult year

2012 has proved the most difficult year in the allotment that any of us can remember. We lost our first - and sometimes second - sowings of carrots and other crops due to the cold and wet April and May. Perhaps this was inevitable as we had a hosepipe ban which...

Smitham Allotments take the prizes

Another successful year for Smitham Allotments! Newcomers Aneko and Colin won two cups at the Coulsdon and District Horticultural Autumn Show including one for the best selection of six types of vegetables beating Ann and Eddie into second and third places. Eddie...

November Recipe – Paula’s Butternut Squash Jalfrezi

Butternut Squash Jalfrezi Serves 4 This recipe is a favourite of Mary's friend Paula over on a visit from Ireland this month. As a vegetarian she is an expert at adapting meat recipes to vegetables, and this is a particularly tasty way to use up some of that glut of...

Autumn show success for Smitham Allotments

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First Impressions – a year with an allotment

2012 A difficult year

Smitham Allotments take the prizes

November Recipe – Paula’s Butternut Squash Jalfrezi

Autumn show success for Smitham Allotments

Allotment pond

BBQ 2017

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