High Storrs School Plant Sale
We had a very successful day at the High Storrs School PTA Plant Sale on 11 May and raised an impressive amount of money for our funds....but, as you can see, some very shifty customers were attracted to our stall.
Dates for your diary
Allotment Social, 6 Sept 2008
From 1pm on the Secretary's plot. More details nearer the time.
Site survey
In October of 2007 Dave Chapman conducted a survey of the cultivation state of our plots. This was a follow up to a survey conducted in 2005.
Download results of the Oct 2007 site survey
Photos for the website
If you have a digital camera, don't forget to take some photos of your plot and produce, so we can use them in the gallery on this site.
If possible, provide 6 landscape and 6 portrait photos and crop them to 372 x 240 pixels, or 240 x 372 pixels. E-mail them to info@ctbworks.
If you agree, we may also use your photos for publicity material such as leaflets, and to support grant applications.
Successful Allotment Clear-up Day
On 12 April members of HCAA joined in a Clear-up Day. Despite heavy showers we managed to reclaim the car park areas, clear the lanes of litter, plant hundreds of wild flowers in the hedgerows and dispose of a skipful of unwanted and unsightly rubbish.
The wildflower varieties planted were:
Greater Stitchwort, Meadow Sweet, Betony, Hay Rattle, Cowslip, Red Clover, Lesser Knapweed, Goats Beard, Meadow Pea, Sneezewort, Greater Knapweed, Nettle leaved bell flower, Small Scabious, Self heal, Autumn Hawkbit, Yarrow, Red Campion, Common Toadflax, Lady's Bedstraw, Oxeye Daisy.
Here is a set of pictures to aid identification (This is a 2.5Mb file which might take a while to download).
Please look out for these, so that we get to know which varieties thrive. Then we can plant more of the successful ones in future years.
The flowers and the skip were funded by our successful South West Area Panel bid under the 'Greening up the city' programme.
Japanese knotweed alert
The dreaded Japanese knotweed is present on our site. This is what it looks like.
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There is a chance it may make its way onto your plot. Please go to the Japanese Knotweed Alliance site for pictures of knotweed and information on how to eradicate it.
Other useful sites on this topic are
Thurlow Countryside Management