! ALERT HERBICIDE CONTAMINATION OF MANURE IS AFFECTING CROPS - OURS INCLUDED CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE ON THE WEBSITE
Welcome to Green Lane Allotments
We hope that you enjoy your visit to our site and come back often to see how things are progressing!
It is the time of year when many of us will be browsing seed catalogue to stock up for next season. Check the links below for three of the best loved seed companies. Any orders placed will gain us commission for our funds and will cost you nothing!
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Use the orange arrows on the right to move through the photos - you may need to click twice! There will be a short pause before the next photo appears but if the orange arrow turns into two vertical lines then the slide show is active. Click the double arrows to move back and forth through the photos one at a time.
These photographs were taken on July 27 2008 - July like June has been a bit of a disappointment. During the last full weekend of July the weather seemed to remember that it was summer and sent the sun out with a vengeance. Having not had previous good weather to enable our bodies to acclimatise for many it was too hot to venture out from shade. The above photos provide testimony to that as plots are desserted. Despite the weather we are beginning to reap the benefits of our labours, that is those of us who haven't had our crops devastated by contaminated manure. Some of the crops affected earlier are starting to show signs of recovery, however others are just a lost cause and others are beginning to show signs of distress. It's been a bit of a disappointing season all round really.
Still good weather on the 29th so maybe summer has come at last!
Click here to read the July diary
To view photographs from previous months click here to visit our monthly diary
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New Affiliation Partner
Click on the logo to check them out! |
With over 55 years experience as a garden mail order company and a new vibrant web site, Spalding is at once a very traditional and reliable company and modern, forward looking company with exciting new ideas. Their expert knowledge in getting top quality flower bulbs, roses, perennials, seeds, and other garden related products direct to your door has made them the market leader in the United Kingdom. |
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Click here to read about our campaign to acquire a new secure fence. |
Green Lane Allotments site is a council run site with approximately 60 plots. Some plot holders keep chickens and pigeons whilst others use their plots to grow vegetables, flowers, fruit and herbs etc. We don't ask for much in the way of resources and are fortunate in that we do have a good water supply, however the fence surrounding our site is a dilapidated wooden structure that is only half standing and we desperately need it replacing. We feel that a secure fence and gates are the basic amenities that every allotment plot should enjoy, but unfortunately the council has no funding to enable the fence to be replaced or repaired. |
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You can help us in our campaign without it costing you even a penny! We have affiliated links to some companies who give us commission on all orders placed on their web sites if you access their site using our links. We would also provide advertising to any companies who would sponsor us by making a donation to our fund. It's going to be a long haul!
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For a wide range of garden sundries such as organic gardening supplies,fruit and vegetable cages, fleece, garden netting, garden tools, greenhouse equipment and much more. |
Specialising in biological control of pests and crop protection such as fleece and enviromesh. We use environmesh on many of our crops to prevent carrot fly etc. It lasts for several years. |
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Dobies have been supplying flower and vegetable seeds direct to gardeners since 1880.
You can also earn us commission by accessing the Amazon store via links on our web site. Click here to visit our Amazon best sellers page to view some bargains. Just click on the Amazon link on the far left of the banner to browse the Amazon site!
We want photos of your plots and gardens We have visitors from all over the world as you can see from our map below. It would be really great to know something about visitors to our site. Please post a message in the visitors comments telling us a little about yourself e.g. Where do you live? Do you have an allotment or garden? What do you grow? Any tips or even questions? Any comments about the site and blog and how we can make it better are also welcome. Don’t just visit us let us know that you are out there. Don't be shy! I have added a link specially for photos sent in by our visitors. Odette one of our regular visitors from France has already done this – click here to view her garden . Mick in Chatham has also sent us some photos and information about his garden and allotment plot - click here to view. Come on do what they did and join us. Or send us a photo of a weird looking vegetable that you have grown click here to view but be warned one photo is definitely X rated! | |||
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Our ClusterMap to show where last year's visitors came from January 2007 - January 2008
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We have even more visitors, from even more areas of the world, to our blog. Click on the link on the right to access our blog. Don't just visit make comments on the postings. Join the discussions or banter! |
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Or if you prefer email us by using the link on the left. |
