Successful peanut crop at Highbury South! Climate change has brought many challenges but one advantage of the warmer temperatures is the opportunity to experiment with new crops. I caught Asif leaving the allotment the other day with his freshly harvested crop of peanuts ready to be shelled and dried. It’s a very slow germinating crop and requires a long growing season so not the easiest to grow but maybe we need a new category for next year’s show! Chris Sutcliffe

Dear Plot-holders, Please see below a message from Andrew Wong, Working Party organiser. Also, see attached some photographs of the day. Dear All, A huge thank you to all 35 members who participated in today's working party at Highbury South Allotments! It was wonderful to see so many members coming together, generously giving their time and energy to improve our allotment site. Thanks to everyone's hard work, enthusiasm and teamwork, we managed to accomplish a tremendous amo

“ We had a very successful Annual Show on Sunday 20th September. Despite the wind, which blew down one of our small marquees on Sunday morning, the weather was otherwise fine and we had a good attendance. Particular thanks are due to Neil Scott and Anne-Marie Thompson for their assiduous work in calculating the scores for all the entrants in the show. Bob Heyman acted as one of the judges for the vegetables and fruit, Karolina and Joan Aarvold helped greatly in judging the fl

Dear Plot-holders, We have just been sent the attached information regarding the City Council's allotment show which is to be held in the Exhibition Park on Sunday 6th (entrants Saturday 5th September). I popped along last year and it was a great event with lots going on and so interesting to see other people's vegetable and flower entrants. This is NOT referring to our own show which is on Sunday 20th September. You will receive a further reminder of this celebration a coup

David Callan has kindly responded to interest shown in the popular dishes he prepared and cooked for the May 2026 bank holiday working party. Working Party -May 2026 Recipes Ukrainian potato salad 1. Use new potatoes. Preferably Jersey Royals or Charlotte. 2. Peel, scrub or leave as they are. 3. They should be cut to the size of large unshelled walnuts - exactly or very similar in size to each other. 4. Boil or steam very carefully. Check with a skewer of fork

David Whinham has had interest from people on the allotment and has kindly offered us an upload of his Solargraph pnto the website for people to see:- My Solargraph which tracks the movement of the sun from Summer Solstice 2025 to Winter Solstice 2025 from the allotments. A solargraph capturing the period from the summer solstice 2025 to winter solstice from the allotment in Newcastle upon Tyne shows the sun's path across the sky, with the longest path of light occurring arou

Many thanks to those who assisted at the working party on 16th November. David, Jane and Joe laid on their usual heartwarming fare for lunch as well as excellent wines. Accolades are due to Chris, Colin, Gavin and Alasdair for putting posts in the ground at the south eastern corner of our allotment, to Gordon and Gillian who started an effective fire which was able to burn all material on the fire site and every cutting and branch that were brought to the fire on the day. Pet

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