Sharing an order form with Kings Seeds pays real dividends for Weaste Allotment plot holders. A special allotment scheme means that by buying in bulk less is paid. The team of volunteers at the Community Shop take orders from plot holders at the end of a year for delivery early in the next year. The delivery is then made to the shop and this means that there is no waiting in at home or carrying bags of seed potatoes to the plot. Many plot holders walk or cycle to the plot and both make taking bulky or heavy items more difficult.
Kings chit tips
Andrew Tokely, Horticultural Director of Kings Seeds, knows a thing or two about growing. He manages 3,500 bedding plants a year for his own garden with the help of two greenhouses. He provides monthly tips on the Kings Seeds blog which is helpful to plot holders with and without experience of growing.
An allotment is just a large garden for fruit and veggies so scale up the advice given and away you go. Once seed potatoes are delivered it is just a case of putting the tubers out in seed trays, or old egg boxes do the trick too. They need to be in the light and somewhere that’s not going to catch the frost. They will then chit … which means they produce small green shoots. Once the shoots are showing, they can be planted out once the warm weather of Spring arrives.
Sapling Sharing
It is lovely to see on the plot holder’s Facebook Group that the allotmenteers continue to share and care. We mentioned that there is a Community Orchard and that the wood can go to the annual Bonfire Night celebrations. There is pruning going on at various times of the year on different plots with various fruit trees.
So here’s a brilliant idea from one of the allotmenteers to create a natural fence around the border of her plot. Contributions of bendy sapling prunings came flying in. Sharing the pruning rather than chipping or burning is good for environment and looks great too. Some may be willow too so sprouting may occur creating a living fence. We’ll take a look next year and report back 🙂
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