Hillingdon Allotment News Archive
Hillingdon Allotment News has been available on this website since Summer 2005.
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Issue - 16: Spring 2008
Contents / Articles
Chairman's comments - signs of spring in the garden
Growing parsnips and carrots
Plants eat soil - Don’t they?
Allotment judging – multiple plots
General information - United Nations International year of the potato; Life saving allotments; More garden chemicals to go.
Jobs to do in April and May
Query corner
Allotment Taster sessions
HAHF Information
Who’s who – Karl Griffiths – (Committee member); Meetings; Individual membership; The website;
Copy dates for newsletters and contact details.
Ruislip Central Horticultural Society meetings (talks)
Issue - 15: Winter 2007
This issue contains lots of photographs from the AGM and presentation of awards with the results of the allotment competition. (The pdf version is available in two parts.)
Allotment News 15 PDF 1
Chairman's comments; Allotment Competition results; photographs from the AGM, and presentation of awards.
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Allotment News 15 PDF 2
Peas on trial; Save water; Allotment Officer's post; Taster Sessions; Winter quiz; Leisure; Assistance; HAHF information.
Contents / Articles
Chairman's comments Photographs from the AGM, and presentation of awards are in PDF1.
General information : Allotment judging; Save water; Allotment Officer post; Taster sessions; Assistance; Write an article for the newsletter.
Peas on trial
Winter quiz
Poems and quotations
HAHF Information: Who’s who – Carina Browne (Secretary and Website Administrator); Meetings; The website: Copy dates for newsletters; Contact details
Issue - 14: Summer 2007
Contents / Articles
Hillingdon mayor’s visit to allotment sites
Chairman’s comments
Hosepipe ban on Hillingdon allotment
comments from Southbourne Gardens Allotment Society
Watering of vegetables
Marigolds and broad beans or incompatible partners
Beneath the surface
A few musings on potatoes, peas and pests
Boring salads – not any more
End of season jobs
Vegetables for exhibition as well as good culinary varieties
HAHF information
Who’s who – David England (Editor);
Meetings;
The website;
Copy dates for newsletters and contact details
Issue 13: Spring 2007
Contents / Articles
Chairman’s report
Seasonal signs
Water water everywhere?
Using water wisely
Jobs of the months
March to May
Green manures by Caron Andrews
Range of plants available
Pesticide problems/ disposal
Using chemicals safely
Hints on growing cabbage.
Includes information about clubroot resistant cabbage
Allotment competition
Preparation and judging criteria
How much am I worth?
General information 1
Allotment Taster sessions;
Starter packs;
This is one I grew earlier;
Ladybirds;
Enid Blyton’s home;
Produce news;
Horticultural advice from the editor
General information 2
Free compost -- get those bags ready;
Access to Allotment News - 'How are you reading this news letter' ;
Now there’s a funny thing;
Encouraging Children;
Tetanus injections;
Attention all Society / Show Secretaries;
Ruislip Central Horticultural Society meetings; Chinese Proverb
HAHF information
Who’s who – Nick Porter (Allotment Officer);
Meetings;
The website;
Copy dates for newsletters and contact details;
Assistance required.
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Issue 12: Autumn & Winter 2006
Contents / Articles (in text format)
Summary of the AGM
Your new Committee
(Contains photograph, it may be slow to download)
News from 2006
Chairman’s report to the AGM
Stop Press
New Allotments Officer
Allotment Competition results
(contains photographs, it may be slow to download)
Tips
Age / Gender profile
Analysis of response to Allotment News questionnaire
Dates of HAHF Meetings
Jobs for the Winter Months
Who’s who
Colin Sharp ‘Vice Chair’, (contains photograph, it may be slow to download)
HAHF website
Free Taster Sessions in 2007
Additional notes
Issue 11: Summer 2006
Contents / Articles (in text format)
The Chairman’s bit
HAHF / LBH Joint Allotment Strategy Update
Aims of the strategy and progress
Question and Answer
Split parsnips
Updates
Allotment competition; Horticultural show dates; HAHF meetings; Assistance required
Tip of the iceberg
How to grow garlic; Peas in a pod
Brief history of the legal background to the creation of allotments
1740s - current times
New RHS award of garden merit plants
Jobs for September and October
Who’s who
Stuart Hunt (LBH Country side and conservation manager). (Photograph may be slow).
Editor's comments and contact details
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Issue 10: Spring 2006
Contents / Articles (in text format)
The Chairman's bits
Planning for the Allotment Competition 2006
News cuttings
New cabbage variety resistant to club root; History of potatoes; Allotment beginners tool kit; Healthy eating; LBH Contact centre
Guidelines for site secretaries
Updates
Horticultural show dates; HAHF meetings; Points to ponder
Who's who
Marianne Slater (HAHF Chairman). (Photograph may be slow).
Editor's comments and contact details
Issue 9: Winter 2005
Contents / Articles
The website; Allotment prize winners; Jobs to do in winter; Allotment history; Value of a poly tunnel; The Food fair; Harefield Horticultural Society; Aims of the Hillingdon Allotment and Horticultural Federation; Members of the new committee; Dates of HAHF meetings in 2006.
Issue 8: Summer 2005
Contents / Articles
Allotment taster sessions; Companion planting; First aid kits; Killer lady birds; New leek pest; Width of pathways; Station Road allotments; Ruislip Horticultural Society; Hillingdon Allotment and Horticultural Federation Committee Members.
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