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Grow, Make, Bake
Lemon Drizzle Courgette Cake
Lemon Drizzle Courgette Cake
200g grated courgette
125g butter, melted
Compost Awareness Week & Maye Bruce
“Compost Awareness Week” on Sunday 8th May
Held on Martyn’s Constable’s Allotment, where he plans to plant legumes
When did you last see a hedgehog?
By: Lesley Greene
Campaign for hedgehogs!
Slugs are a real pest on the allotments but the allotment field has wonderful birds and we have hedgehogs snuffling around in the allotment hedges. Not only do Hedgehogs eat slugs but , like many previously common wildlife, their numbers are declining fas
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Slug pellets are poisonous,
Ronan’s Trust Charity Allotment
With YOUR agreement and support Plot No 8 has been allocated to the Ronan’s Trust.
‘Sod’ layering to compost
Taking up your lawn? Making a new bed out of grass? TURF makes excellent compost, really beautiful results, but has to be done in a certain way. Now is the time to do it for the spring. ‘Sod’ layering, like lasagna composting
“Yogar” at the Community Orchard
Suppleness, Strength and pSychological well-being
Back in the summer, we ran a pilot scheme to provide free yoga, open to all. Dubbed “Yogar” (Yoga for gardeners); local resident and yoga instructor Amy Hughes lead the sessions, helping aching gardeners to stretch and strengthen all those muscles essential to keep them digging and sowing!
