At the Working Group on Saturday 12th April and army of plotters tackled a delivery of gravel, spreading it out to re-surface the car park. In brilliant sunshine, with clear blue skies, 14 plotters wielded shovels, wheelbarrows and rakes to spread out the gravel, filling …
The allotments at SPAA will be open again for the NGS Open Gardens after the success of opening for the first time in 2024. As part of the Swallowfield Village Gardens group opening on Sunday 29th June 2025, the allotments will be open between 2pm …
Plotters welcomed visitors to a Harvest Festival Open Morning on Saturday 21st September and despite a very wet 24 hours leading up to the event, it mostly stayed dry. On sale were delicious home made cakes, jam and chutney, plants, produce and beautiful cut flowers. …
On Sunday 2 June 2024, Plotters at SPAA were delighted to welcome over 100 visitors to the Swallowfield Open Gardens which was part of the National Garden Scheme. With the allotment site looking neat and lots of plants growing across the site, visitors from across …
The Swallowfield Allotments will be open to the public on Sunday 2nd June 2024 from 2pm to 5.30pm as part of the Swallowfield Group of open gardens. For 2024 there are nine gardens that are opening to the public in Swallowfield. Admission is £8 which …
The February Working Group completed lots of very valuable tasks when they met at Calico Field on Saturday 24th February 2024. Many thanks to all those who took part – Lucinda, Linda, Reg, Claire, Duncan, Caroline, Nick, Jane, Alison, Neil and John.
The seemingly impossible task of moving a mountain was achieved by a small hardy group of plotters on Tuesday 13th February 2024! During 2023, ground works to help improve the drainage on the Calico Field, the site of the SPAA allotments, left a large mountain …
Two plotters are very pleased to have successfully grown loofahs this year and are now looking forward to putting them to use as dish scrubbers! A challenge has now been laid to other plotters to come up with more loofahs or other exotic plants!
On Saturday 13th May 2023 Plotters at the SPAA Allotments welcomed visitors to the site to see what we are growing, buy plants and raffle tickets and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and homemade cakes. Despite the gloomy wet weather in the days …
SPAA will be holding our 2023 Open Morning on Saturday 13th May from 11am to 1pm. Do come and join us! To celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III, we will be theming the Open Morning “Of Cabbages and Kings” and many of the stalls …