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 …
The Swallowfield Spring Horticultural Show will take place in the Swallowfield Parish Hall on Saturday 25th March 2023 between 2pm and 4pm. If you wish to enter the show, entries will be staged between 11am and 12.30pm and judging will take place from 12.30pm. Entry …
The SPAA Allotment has suffered badly from flooding during November 2022 – possibly the worst flood we have seen on the site. With a long hot dry summer and now heavy rain, what else will the weather throw at us!
Three new raised beds have been constructed near the communal sheds for use by families with children, or any gardeners with reduced mobility. The beds are easily accessible from the SPAA car park and will be filled with compost donated by Re3 Grow. The beds …
Saturday 10th December 2022 across the whole of Swallowfield Parish.
After a two year gap because of the pandemic, we finally held an Open Morning at the Swallowfield Allotments on Saturday 14th May 2022. In glorious sunshine, and with tables groaning with plants grown by the plotters and home-made cakes, we threw open the gates …