Features

Bees in the Allotment

Swarms of bees are not uncommon in the allotment but this one is in a rather unusual place!

September Recipe – Raspberry and Sloe Jam

Ann used Barbara’s excess raspberries with foraged sloes to make jam, which not only got first prize in the Banstead Horticultural Society Autumn show but also a blue ribbon awarded for an outstanding exhibit.
Here is the recipe.

Early summer in the Allotment

Early summer in the allotment. This is the time when we start to harvest: broad beans, cherries and first early potatoes. And we have the first dahlia as a foretaste of what is to come.

Spring in the Allotment

Early spring in the allotment means daffodils and blossom, forced rhubarb and digging potato trenches.

Better beetroot

Better beetroot

Our secretary, Mary, has just lifted the most beautifully formed lush beetroot I've ever seen! Certain prizewinners...

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Onions or trees?

Onions or trees?

'What are you doing in amongst those trees?' asked Eddie, our Chairman. I was in the onion patch harvesting the...

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Smitham Show 2010

Smitham Show 2010

On 21 September Smitham Primary School held their first horticultural show in conjunction with Smitham Allotments...

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Preparing the ground

Preparing the ground

From October 2008 to the early summer of 2009 Thames Water took over most of the site to install a 3metre square pipe...

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