Edge Lane Allotments's blog

It’s a new year, fresh with new possibilities. There are many reasons to be optimistic about 2010, but it doesn’t come without its challenges. This year, we need to take a hard look at our food system, identify the problems, and make the changes necessary to ensure that safe, healthy food is available to all. We need to overhaul our school lunch program, and eliminate the use of growth hormones in dairy operations. Let’s crack down on pollution from industrial farms, and improve living conditions for the animals within them. It’s a tall order, I know.

On behalf of the Edge Lane Allotment Society Commitee I would like to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a very wealthy and healthy new year.

I would also like to mention that in 2010 Jessica Mayo plot no. ?? will be delivering our youngest allotmenteer,
so If anyone sees her doing anything strenuous, silly, unhealthy (smoking) (drinking) etc, etc, then stop her as we must make sure our future allotmenteers are of a healthy standard. Hey we can,t wait any excuse for a party.

Grow your own fruit trees and berries within the UK ….

New research from Plant forLife reveals the trend for ‘grow your own’ has almost doubled, with over half (54%) admitting they now choose to grow their own, compared to just one fifth (22%) two years ago. Almost two thirds (62%) agree they would like to grow their own fruit trees and berries.

Growing your own gets you out into the fresh air, helping to keep you fit by burning off a few calories. However, most of all we get the health benefits of eating fresh fruit and vegetables everyday and we save money!

Here we have Scarlet our very own Edge Lane Allotment Scarecrow Competition winner !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holding on to her 1st place winners medal with her certificate and £5 gift voucher.

Well done Scarlet

CO-OPERATION AND HARD WORK REAP REWARDS AT EDGE LANE ALLOTMENTS

The sunshine smiled down for our well-attended open day on Sunday 9th August. Everyone had fun and the children had a whale of a time on the various stalls including hook a duck, face painting, tombola and soak the grandad!
A scarecrow and cake competitions provided some friendly rivalry and the delicious food on on offer went down a treat!
There was a display of fruit and veg grown on the allotment and local residents had the opportunity to buy some lovely fresh produce and help raise funds to help continue the ongoing improvements on site.

Here we have three of our lovely committee members hard at work doing seeds of the east at phillips park with the wheelbarrows and hanging baskets that were planted up to be raffled off.

From Left to Right ( Our treasurer julie maher, Sharon our secretary & Our plot steward patrick maher )

Looks like you all had a good day guys and thank goodness the weather was nice for you.

Hope you like the photo.

Jenny. xx

A walk around the allotments starts with a new skip arriving and ends with a lost dog found.

Whats all the fuss about ? I here you ask Its always the youngsters that spot It first (It must be my eyes )

Well as you can see keen interest in the pond and what are they looking at ? Well I think I told everyone that It was a young Loch Ness Monster that has been dropped Into my pond by a large pelican. If you know what it really is then please put a reply on this page Untill someone tells me then I will keep calling It Nessy.