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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...

New resident

Jan and Julie have discovered a new resident among the raised beds....
Allotment pond

Allotment pond

Pond in the allotments with frogspawn and toadspawn. Let's hope they develop into the slug and snail eating machines...

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BBQ 2017

BBQ 2017

A good time was had by all at the 2017 allotment BBQ. Great food and drink, glorious weather and the Smitham Allotment...

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