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Community Garden Plug Plants Allotment and Leisure Gardener Issue No 2 • 2011 TEGS page 13 Community garden page 32 Plug plants page 34 National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners PROTECT PROMOTE PRESERVE £2 15 Kg (40Ltr) Bag £3.95 + vat delivered 100% ORGANIC FERTILISER PRODUCED FOR OVER 25 YEARS, COMPOSTED, MILLED AND OVEN HEATED AT OVER 200O C TO PRODUCE A SAFE AND ECONOMICAL PRODUCT ONE BAG WILL TREAT UP TO 250 SQUARE YARDS PELLETED CHICKEN FERTILISER • EASY TO SPREAD • CONCENTRATED • One or two handfuls per sq.metre for vegetables, soft fruits, flowers A dissolved handful in one gallon of water for an excellent liquid feed Scatter a handful on each layer of garden waste to enrich the compost Ideal for lawn feed at a handful per sq. metre 8 Kg bucket from e: [email protected] 20 Kg bag from £3.50 + vat delivered www.groworganic.org £5.95 + vat delivered Send orders to: Please send me:- 66 Bags of Groworganic @ £3.95 plus vat per bag ORGANICO LIMITED 33 Bags of Groworganic @ £4.25 plus vat per bag 60 8Kg buckets of pellets @ £4.00 plus vat per bucket DEPT 4, HAYES ROAD 100 (pallet) 8Kg buckets of pellets @ £3.50 plus vat per bucket COMPTON DUNDON 100 (pallet) 10Kg bags of pellets @ £3.50 plus vat per bag NR. SOMERTON 25 20Kg bags of pellets @£6.40 plus vat per bag SOMERSET 55 (pallet) 20Kg bags of pellets @ £5.95 plus vat per bag TA11 6PF (tick appropriate box) Name ____________________________________________ Address __________________________________________ TEL: 01458 272202 _________________________________________________ FAX: 01458 273337 Post Code _____________ Tel Number _________________ NO CHEQUES REQUIRED - Delivery and payment arranged through our wholesaler 2 Contact details Allotment and Leisure Gardener Issue 2 • 2011 Head Office Secretary: Mrs D McDaid Administration: Mrs K Maher, Mrs E McInally & Mr I Blaikie, Rakhi Arora Legal Advisor: Mrs Liz Bunting 9 13 Officers of the Society President: Mr C Nickerson Chairman: Mr A Rees MBE Vice Chairman: Mrs S Fleetwood Treasurer: Mr D Rawlings Local Authority Representative Cllr Mrs J Wood Standing Orders Committee Acting Chairman: Mr I Crawford Mr P Lofts, Mr D Gibbs PLEASE NOTE: NSALG enquiries should be made to: Head Office, O’Dell House, Hunters Road, Corby, Northants NN17 5JE Tel: 01536 266576 Fax: 01536 264509 email: [email protected] web: www.nsalg.org.uk Design, Print and Advertising Sales Crest Publications 20, Moulton Park Office Village, Scirocco Close, Northampton, NN3 6AP Tel: 01604 670820 email: [email protected] Front cover Rakhi Arora from NSALG Head Office advising interested parties at The Edible Garden Show Cover photograph ALG Issue 1.2011 ‘Jack & Ron’ from Mottram Allotments This wonderful image was provided by Dionne Cyprus. You can view more of her 18 22 work at: www.dionnecyprus.co.uk. This information was missed from the contents page in the previous edition. SUBMISSIONS ADVICE Letters and articles for publication should be sent to: NSALG Head Office CLOSING DATES: Issue 3 2011: 21/6/2011 Magazine Submissions: All submissions MUST be typewritten and sent by post or email to Head Office. Articles should be limited to 600 words. We will wherever possible include articles that are sent in by post but cannot guarantee their inclusion. When submitting articles, please provide name, addresss, phone number and e-mail address if applicable. If submitting by email, the subject line should 32 34 read ‘NSALG magazine’. Photographs and images: In this issue… Ideally your images should be of good resolution, 300dpi (photos taken with Regions & reps....................................4 Plug plants........................................34 mobile phones are not good enough Chairman’s Comments .......................5 Origins of ALG ..................................38 quality). Send photos via email preferably Legal ...................................................7 or originals in the post (photocopies / AROUND THE REGIONS printed copies will not be used). Letters.................................................8 Book Review.....................................10 Northern............................................39 If you need help with any of the above please call Jayne at Crest Publications FEATURES Yorkshire ...........................................43 on: 01604 495495 or email: TEGS report..........................................13 North West........................................45 [email protected] Questions and Answers....................18 West Midlands ..................................49 NSALG Management Committee, Officers, Editor and Publishers, do not necessarily agree with the views expressed by contributors Seeds of life after stroke...................22 Eastern..............................................52 to this magazine and do not accept any responsibility for any errors in transmission in the subject matter of this publication. All National Allotment Garden Trust.......24 South West .......................................57 advertisements are included in good faith and NSALG Management Committee, Officers, Editor and Publishers, cannot Celebrate compost ...........................26 Wales ................................................58 therefore accept any responsibility for any services offered by advertisers. No part of this publication may be reproduced Onions et al.......................................31 without express written permission of the Society and Publishers. New garden community....................32 Competitions/Giveaway ...................36 3 Regions and reps NORTHERN Northumbrland and Tyne and Wear • County Durham • Cleveland • Cumbria • Scotland Mr Peter Horrocks 6 Moor Road North, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE3 1AD Tel: 0191 285 6412 Email: [email protected] YORKSHIRE North Yorkshire • West Yorkshire • South Yorkshire • Parts of Humberside Peter Horrocks Mr Tony Heeson Regional Rep 25 The Broadway, Balby, Doncaster DN4 9BS Mr Tony Heeson Tel: 01302 851557 • Email: [email protected] Regional Rep NORTH WEST Lancashire • Greater Manchester • Merseryside • Cheshire Mr David Morris 54 Princes Boulevard, Wirral, Merseryside CH63 5LW Tel: 0151 512 3882 • Email: [email protected] EAST MIDLANDS Lincolnshire • Nottinghamshire • Derbyshire • Leicestershire • Northamptonshire Mrs Shirley Fleetwood Mr D Morris 1 Veronica Drive, Carlton, Nottingham NG4 3QS Regional Rep Tel: 0115 952 6920 • Email: [email protected] Mrs S Fleetwood Regional Rep WEST MIDLANDS Staffordshire • West Midlands • Warwickshire • Shropshire • Herefordshire • Worcestershire Mr Maurice Lander 4 Franciscan Road, Coventry CV3 6HB Tel: 02476 502362 • Email: [email protected] EASTERN Buckinghamshire • Norfolk • Suffolk • Cambridgeshire • Bedfordshire • Hertfordshire • Essex and parts of London Mrs Karen Kenny 197 Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 5DA Mr Maurice Lander Tel: 07712 766916 • Email: [email protected] Regional Rep Karen Kenny SOUTH EAST Regional Rep Kent and parts of London • Surrey • Sussex Mr Peter Neame 46 Sunnyhill Road, Herne Bay CT6 8LU Tel: 01227 362321 or 07742915297 Email: [email protected] SOUTHERN Oxfordshire • Berkshire • Wiltshire • Gloucestershire • Hampshire • Isle of Wight Mr Tim Cann 8 Nicholas Avenue, Old Marston, Oxford OX3 0RN Mr Peter Neame Tel: 01865 202104 • Email: [email protected] Regional Rep SOUTH WEST Mr Tim Cann Dorset • Avon • Somerset • Devon • Cornwall Regional Rep Mr Alan Cavill 6 Pinney Close, Comeytrowe, Taunton, Somerset TA1 4NW Tel: 07748 178964 • Email: [email protected] WALES Glamorganshire • Gwent • Dyfed • Powys • Clywd Mr Allan Rees MBE 77 Eustace Drive, Bryncethin, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan CF32 9EX Tel: 01656 721865 • Email: [email protected] Allan Cavill Regional Rep 4 Mr A Rees MBE Regional Rep Head Office Chairman’s Comments As I mentioned in the last magazine regarding insurance, I can look at their obligation to provide assure everyone that we are endeavouring to get a better deal allotments. for us all. Those of you who are considering leaving the society because of insurance costs, please think again and look at the Rents have been at the forefront of benefits we provide outside of insurance. With professional much media reporting. I always refer staff, we provide legal advice, a large amount of information, them to the Reigate and Barnstead guidance and training. We are also attending Central Judgement, but I also explain under the Government meetings on a regular basis and working with Freedom of Information Act you can other organisations closely to ensure the protection of our request how much other recreational allotments. What other organisation would support its members leisure facilities were subsidised during the year. It is incredible to the tune of £35,000 on legal issues? Not many! That is our that millions can be spent maintaining leisure services and total legal spend for 2010 plus we employ a legal person in the nothing on allotments. It is a worthwhile exercise for you all to office. So you see, there are a lot of benefits even if we do not do in your area and let us know the results. From information I get things right every time the positives outweigh the negatives. received a £185,000 subsidy was given for a swimming pool (yes one pool!) in a medium sized town, nothing on allotments. Over the years I have never understood why members do not purchase from our seed scheme with Kings Seeds; a purchase Having been a little bit of a sport person in the past I do not
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