Page 12 - ALG Issue 3 2014

Snippets
tips&titbits
Survey response
Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out the NAS Survey in the last edition. Your comments and feedback are essential to us and we are listening. A general report and statistics will be presented in ALG 4.14.
Award winning
photographer
volunteers for the NAS
The striking cover image on this quarter’s Allotment and Leisure Gardener was taken by our latest volunteer recruit, national award winning photographer Karen Parker. Karen has offered her ongoing expertise to the Society and has also provided the image for this year’s National Allotment Week poster. Karen juggles being a full-time
carer for her mum with corporate commissions (she has her own private studio in leafy Stony Stratford). Any free time is spent working on her tiny front garden (voted best small garden in Stony), working on her plot at Wolverton Road Allotments and helping to rescue and rejuvenate the onsite orchard. www. karenparkerphotography.co.uk
New gardening TV series looking
for a group of neighbours to create
a shared garden
Silver River TV (producers of BBC2’s The Big Allotment Challenge) are making a new series for one of the UK’s major broadcasters. They are looking for a group of neighbours who would be willing to take down their garden fences and transform their own back gardens into the streets very own Garden of Eden.
If you would like to find out more about the series please email communalgarden@silverriver. tv or call 0207 907 3470.
Comp winners
Gardening Scotland – National Gardening and Outdoor Living Show 3 pairs of tickets go to:
Carol O’Hara, Staffordshire Julie Leach, Kettering
Paul Crabtree, Lancashire
NAS Survey
3 Sets of gardening books to give away (Closing date 30.6.14)
Winners will be announced in the next edition.
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Seeds to sow now...
Les Day at Kings Seeds has supplied us with a list of Kings Seeds varieties that members could be sowing now to keep their plots productive over the winter and into the spring.
AUGUST
Spring Greens, such as F1 Spring Hero, F1 Duncan, April, Flower of Spring, Durham early and Wheelers Imperial. Carrot F1 Eskimo
Claytonia
Beet Perpetual Spinach
Salad Rocket
Spinach Medina
Radish Tarzan
Onion White Lisbon Winter Hardy
Pak Choi Green
Mizuna
Also in August you can still grow green manures such as Buckwheat, Crimson Clover and Fenugreek.
SEPTEMBER
Lettuce Valdor, Artic King, and Winter Density
Radish Tarzan
Onion White Lisbon Winter Hardy Beet perpetual Spinach
Spinach Medina
Pak Choi Green
Salad Rocket
Autumn sowing Onion Sets
Green Manures Mustard, Phacelia, Grazing Rye, Winter Tares and our new Overwinter mix.
OCTOBER
Cabbage F1 Candissa
Calabrese FI Green Magic
Cauliflower F1 Barcelona
Pea Metor and Douce Provence (late October)
Broad Beans Aquadulce Claudia (late October)
Lettuce Winter Density
Green manures Grazing Rye, Kings New Overwinter Mixture.