WHAT YOU CAN DO:

 

• Firstly, enjoy yourself, the fresh air, planting and maintaining of your plot.

• Make sure you bring yourself a drink

• We have a strictly organic policy, and NO artificial chemicals or fertilisers or plastics are to be used.

 

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YOU CAN PLANT:

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• Vegetables

• Supported cropping vegetables

• Herbs (mint needs maintaining)

• Flowers

• Contained fruit bushes

 

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YOU CAN USE:

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• Wooden planting troughs

• Wood to contain your plot boundary

• Clay pots

• Coconut husk

• Mulch organic

• Fibre plug pots

• Watering can

• Anything that’s organic and natural

• You can use ground-level cloches

• You can use dry bamboo cane/ wooden supports for your climbers (no willow)

• Maintain your plot by keeping it weed free, again organic methods must be used such as planting a Rose near your fruit or marigolds near your veg plants, using white vinegar sprays for aphids, our rotted manure for fertiliser/any alternative organic fertiliser

• Beer traps and crushed eggshells for slug and snail prevention

• Scarecrows made from hessian sacks or cotton and wool fabrics

• You can use a wooden edge to your plot or use raised wooden planting troughs

• We will allow you to net your fruit bushes on a wooden frame and protect your young plants too with a net with a wooden structure support. Make sure you remove the netting once you have finished with it.

• Take your rubbish home with you

• Keep the area around your plot clear, these are access paths to all the allotments.

• Attend to your plot regularly to maintain it making sure you weed it regularly

• Pay monthly by direct debit or a yearly fee, keep us updated with your details in case your circumstance change for any reason.

• Be neighbourly and friendly at all times

• Be proud of what you grow and respect everyone else’s plots.

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WHAT YOU CAN'T DO:

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• We don’t allow sheds or polytunnels on the plots, we will provide a lockable shed and shelter for you to use

• No plastic is allowed to be left on plots including any drink bottles

• No animals, such as chickens, rabbits etc

• Don’t fall out with anyone at the allotments, causing arguments and/or distress. Absolutely no use of your tools in an aggressive or threatening manner.

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We have a strict no plastic rule/chemical, artificial components and/or sprays policy.

 

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WHAT YOU CAN'T HAVE/PLANT:

 

• No fruit trees

• No living bamboo or willow

• Any ponds or water feature

• No hosepipe or sprinklers or water butts (water will be available at all times.

• No compost bins ( a large compost area will be available)

• No plastic pots left on site

• No plastic bags on sticks to scare birds

• No plastic or decorative windmills, ornaments or metal ornaments etc

• No carpet as weed block or any synthetic products

• No fire pits or bonfires

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DON'T NEGLECT YOUR PLOT:

 

• Don’t leave weeds, cultivate regularly

• Don’t allow your plot to overgrow

• Don’t leave dead plants or weeds on the paths, put them in the compost area

• Don’t go on anyone else’s plot without permission

• Don’t wash your tools off in the water trough

• Don’t leave your tools on the plot, take them home, or put them in the lockable shed

• Don’t leave any rubbish

• You can’t re-let your plot or sublet it yourself. Speak to us and we will help you sort this out.

• If you no longer want your plot due to a change in circumstances we must be given a ONE-month notice in advance, you are also responsible for removing all your items and clearing your plot within the month's notice period

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Do ask us for help and advice or look after your plot if you are away and we will do that for you.