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New tips on growing PEAS

28/1/2014

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We're always told peas are easy to grow - and they can be. But timing the sowing and protecting from other creatures that want to eat them first can be tricky for the beginner.
Click here to go to our new page with lots of tips.
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Allotments - a right or a privilege?

27/1/2014

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There are people on the waiting list, and Ashford has a number of allotment sites which were allowed to become derelict years ago when there was little demand. Want to know the ins and outs of more allotments? Check our page by clicking HERE.
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THREE ACRES AND A COW - exciting and important folk song show for Ashford 

25/1/2014

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Write it on your calendar - Saturday 15th March!   At 7.45 - 10.30 in the evening

"Three Acres and a Cow" is the real story of our relationship with the land - a story of which allotments make up a significant and undervalued chapter. Allotments are our last link with our medieval ancestors, whose rights to graze their geese on common land and farm a few strip fields were gradually stolen from them over the centuries.
EXTRACT FROM THE 'THREE ACRES AND A COW' WEBSITE

"Telling the history of land and food in Britain is always a multi-stranded narrative. On one side we have the history of enclosure, privatisation and the dispossession of land based communities; on the other we have the vibrant histories of struggle and resistance that emerged when people rose up and confronted the loss of their lands, cultures and ways of life.

These multiple histories go largely undocumented in the literature of the times, often expressed simply as a hanging here and an uprising there, yet in the music and stories of the people they take on a different life.

‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects The Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with the 80′s road protests and Occupy via the enclosures and Highland Clearances, bringing a compelling narrative to the radical people’s history of Britain through folk songs, stories and poems.

Part TED talk, part history lecture, part folk club sing-a-long, part poetry slam, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations."

Click here to go to their website, with lots of reviews
Click here to go to St Mary's ticket website for more details
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Not forum but committee

23/1/2014

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On Wednesday 22nd January, Penny Winston (chairman) and Gilda Puckett (publicity manager) met with council officers to clarify and improve communication between allotmenteers and the council. The meeting was called by Julie Rogers (Strategic Customer Services Mangaer) but she did not attend, and the council sent Ann Davies and Eileen Law (both from Environmental Services) and Dean Spurrell, who is communications and marketing manager.

A number of areas were discussed, mostly concerning the council's (non) use of email to contact plotholders, the matter of posters, and the council's postal mailshots. Anyone who would like full notes of the meeting may email Gilda at ashfordallotments@yahoo.co.uk

Ann Davies clarified that there will be only one  mailshot this year coming through your letterbox, and this will be sent out with the invoices in early March. In this mailshot will come the show schedule, annual newsletter and everything else. PLEASE DON'T 'FILE IT IN WASTE PAPER BASKET' THINKING THERE WILL BE MORE LATER! There won't.

This means, of course, that anyone having no access to email or this website will be rather poorly informed. Please make sure you talk to your neighbours and let them know what is going on! It is more important than ever that people with email register their email with the publicity manager. This will ONLY be used for allotment business and will be shared with absolutely nobody. If you are reading this, please let us have your email if at all possible! The only person who will have access to it is the Publicity Manager

One thing that cropped up a few times recently is a confusion about the word "FORUM". This was used in the early days of the current system to describe the AGM of Ashford Allotment Society, and has come to be applied to the Committee of the Society. It has led to confusion with INTERNET FORUMS, which didn't exist way back then! It was decided that we would all stop talking about a "forum" at all, and use the words in the Society rules. This means ASHFORD ALLOTMENT SOCIETY ( made up of all the plotholders), and the COMMITTEE of the Society, made up of the site reps, the chairman, vice chairman, treasurer (LOL) secretary, bulk buying manager (Geoff), show secretary (Tony) and publicity manager (me, Gilda).
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New rep for William Road

22/1/2014

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"Hello everyone! The new rep is me, Vivienne Lawson. Hope to see some of you on Wednesday for the meeting."

Vivienne has one of the plots which is worst affected by the flooding problem, so fingers crossed they get it sorted soon.

If you have a plot on the William Road site, you should have received Vivienne's contact details by now in the post. If for any reason you have not, please feel free to contact the website and we'll send them to you.
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Last minute planting?

20/1/2014

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Have you just recently taken your plot on?
Missed the boat in the autumn?

HARRINGE PLANTS at Sellinge (behind Potten Farm Shop) have some neat cabbage plants which will, if well fed and planted a little deeper than usual, stand a very good chance of yielding you some spring cabbage. At 50p for a tray of six, it's worth a punt. Varieties are "Spring Hero" (round), "Durham Early" (pointed) and Curly Kale. They are in cell trays like bedding, so should transplant just fine. There is a good stock right now, but when they're gone, they're gone.

Harringe Plants have their onions sets, garlic and shallots in now, also seed potatoes by weight (as many different varieties as you like, you only pay for the total weight).
Click here to go to the page with the list on.
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SEED ORDERS HAVE ARRIVED

18/1/2014

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If you have ordered seeds via the seed shed, these have now arrived and are ready for collection.
The seed shed is open Saturday 18th Jan and again every Saturday in February.


Potatoes were only done to order: there may be a small surplus but don't rely on it.
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Special offer from DTBrown Seeds

18/1/2014

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Seed suppliers D. T. Brown are currently offering a selection of vegetable seeds for 99p a packet, with free P&P. Obviously, there is just a small range of varieties, and they don't say how many there are in a packet, but ideal ofr those on a budget with a small plot. Click here to go to the page with the offer!
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This year's seed potatoes in now at Harringe Plants (Potten Farm, Sellinge)

17/1/2014

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Harringe Plants, an old-fashioned nursery at Sellinge, sell seed potatoes by weight. You can have a few of this, half a dozen of that - each goes in a seperate bag with a label, and you pay for the whole lot by the kilo. Convenient and inexpensive, and ideal for the smaller plot. 
Click here to go to the list.

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"Nothing to report, sah!" from William Road site

15/1/2014

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ON THE FLOODING: Immediately after returning from leave, Steve Parish contacted Southern Water to get them to do a full survey to isolate the cause of the problem. There was activity by contractors over there on Saturday 11th so let's hope that was part of it.
ELECTION OF ALLOTMENT REP:  nothing has been heard. Eileen Law says they are still waiting to hear back from the ballot winner.  The next meeting of reps is on the 22nd, so let's hope the new rep at least knows who they are!
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