<p>Horsham Shelley Allotment Society December 2001 </p><p>Tony Butlin, 1,Broome Happy Christmas to you all. I Close, Horsham, RH12 5XG guess there will be a good number of (Phone 263924) you sitting down to a Christmas lunch Closing date: January 12th. including roast potatoes and parsnips, sprouts, and leeks, all grown at Dates for your Diary Redford Avenue. Savour the moment. Savour the tastes. But by the time you receive this Sunday January 27th newsletter the winter solstice will have th passed, and the sun will be rising Sunday February 24 higher in the sky every day. Time to think about ….. Two working mornings for as many of you as possible to get through Seed Orders much needed work to improve the site as a whole before the growing If you don’t already know, HSAS has season. This exercise was successful arranges a bulk order of seeds from last spring. Let’s do even better this Fothergills. Both individual members coming year. get a discount off the catalogue prices and so does the Society, provided the Saturday March 9th total order is large enough. Catalogues th were handed out at the AGM. If you Sunday March 10 weren’t there and want a catalogue, we Rent collection mornings on site. still have a few spare (phone me or Josiane on 262032). This is what you You can also pay your rent direct to have to do: our Treasurer John McPherson at 31, Collingwood Road, Horsham, RH12 1. Enter your order on the order form 2QN. Cheques to HSAS. Or… in the separate columns for seed and non-seed items. You can take out a standing order. See 2. Enter the catalogue prices against the attached sheet. each item. 3. Enter the totals for each column. 4. Calculate your discount: 25% for Annual General Meeting seeds, 10% for non-seed items. The new venue at the Royal Sun Enter the revised totals. Alliance proved very popular with 47 5. Send your order and cheque or cash people present. The Committee have for the discounted total to: already decided to book again for next >>>>>>>>>>> year. council would organise an allotments Committee for 2002 th th One new member was elected: promotion week March 18 – 25 . Alan Brumwell (plot 95B) (248716) Watch this space. Other members of the Committee: Chairman: Neil Chapman (262032) Shelley Allotments Hon. Sec: Josiane Chapman (262032) “Sow seed,- but let no tyrant reap; Hon. Treasurer: John McPherson Find wealth – let no impostor reap”” (265177) Lettings Sec: Frances Leach (269994) Peering glassy eyed over fences and Shop and Sales: Ernie Royce (266965) hedges, Tony Butlin (262924) and Nick Leach Houses hem the plots into a barrack (268048) square Here all that grows is ruled in rods. Sweetcorn stands stiffly to attention, The Committee will be very happy to Be-tasselled epaulettes and towering co-opt any other members who would cockades. like to take a part in running our Ranks of potatoes wear white and affairs. Please let me know if you are yellow stars. interested. Glowing raspberries conceal themselves in thickets. Golden courgette bugles blow mutely, Photos 2001 Amongst shining batons and truncheons One of the attractions of the AGM was of green. Tom Leach’s photo display of the last Girders of rhubarb support tented cities. year at the Redford Avenue site. If you Pumpkins inflate to striated cannon would like prints (at 50p each) of balls. Swollen beetroot entrench, leaves yourself or your plot, just let Tom streaked with magenta. know on Horsham 269994. Stout onions in files, fit to burst their buttons. Prize-winning Poem Scimitars of beans swing amongst blood red flowers. In case you didn’t get a chance to see Carrots mass in close order by nodding Tom’s winning entry for Horsham in plumes of spinach. Bloom, it’s printed >>>>>>>>>>>> On the parade ground, tomato skins Definitely a new angle on allotments. burn red. Marching to the rhythm of the sun, the garden is on guard. Next Year Alert to the sinister charms of If for some reason you have decided convolvulus, not to take a plot next year, please let To the blazing discs of dandelion, racing Frances know as soon as possible, but to clocks in any case before the end of February. And the suffocating nets of damp, It will help a lot when re-letting to white, asterisked chickweed. Plucking out tiny pink mutton sleeves of know which plots are available. fumitory, Resistant to razor mouthed slugs, Allotment Promotion predatory pigeons, Last week Frances and I attended a Corpse fingers of couch grass; dead meeting with Council officers and nettle’s Episcopalian purple. Alert to the covetousness of encroaching other allotment society representatives concrete, to discuss the more active promotion The garden breathes, perspires, at one of allotments in Horsham. Among with those who tend it. other things agreed was that the Tom Leach</p>