ALLOTMENT NEWS

Membership

Membership is just £5 per year.

The Hut

The Hut is open to members on Saturday mornings, starting Saturday 7th February, from 10:00am – 12:00 noon.

Please look out for the new price list, which includes details of new and existing product lines.

Available while stocks last:

• Seed potatoes (first early, second early, salad and maincrop)

• Spring planting red onion sets

• A fresh range of vegetable seeds at very competitive prices

Plots Available

If you live in Capel and fancy growing your own:

• Download an application form from our website

• Contact Martin to check availability

site.manager@capelallotments.co.uk
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Seasonal Growing Tip

One enormous advantage of growing your own fruit and vegetables is harvesting and eating them in season, when they are at their very best.

Cold frames and greenhouses help to:

• Extend the growing season

• Protect crops from unexpected weather conditions

Gardening Jobs for the Month

The Veg Plot

• Clear spent crops, canes and perennial weeds

• If dry, spray with a suitable weed killer to reduce newly germinated weeds

• Continue winter digging

• Sow peas and broad beans; apply bone meal

• Plant rhubarb and cover with straw/manure mix

• Feed with sulphate of ammonia or blended stable manure

• Cover rhubarb crowns to encourage early growth

• Sprout potato tubers in a frost-free area

• If soil dries, consider sowing carrot, spring onion, lettuce, beetroot, turnip and parsnip (or sow under cloches)

• Plant onion sets and shallots

• Scatter slug pellets carefully, protecting birds from indiscriminate use

Lawns

• Aerate wet areas and apply sharp sand

• Lay turf

• Clean equipment

• Apply lawn sand or sulphate of iron to control moss

Fruit

• Apply grease bands

• Plant trees and bushes with a dusting of bone meal

• Apply winter tree wash to control insect pests

• Cover strawberries with fleece

• Prune apples and pears

• Cut autumn raspberries to ground level

• Protect peaches, nectarines and apricots from leaf curl with a copper spray

Greenhouse

• Empty and wash with Jeyes Fluid

• Line with bubble plastic

• Spray with a whitefly killer

• Sow main crop onions, leeks and sweet peas in pots

• Check cuttings for mildew and treat with a fungicide

• Begin sowing annuals and tomatoes

• Water plants sparingly

Flowers

• Tidy borders

• Feed with Growmore or 6X and mulch

• Ventilate chrysanthemum stools

• Start sowing annuals

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