Work on the allotment roads not tackled last time is starting this Wednesday 21st October and should take around two weeks to complete.

The work is being carried out by the same people who did the roads around the entrance gate. The crowns of the roads will be scooped off, to create a level track, while areas prone to flooding in heavy rain will be filled with limestone chips (‘scalpings’ for the technically inclined). A mini digger and dumper truck will be used.

Progress so far

The newsletter of the Royal Paddocks Allotments was published continuously from 1998 to 2015 and a complete set of archive issues is now available here on this website.

The Plotholder made its first appearance in June 1998 as three sides of plain type with no illustrations…

A very sad discovery of this dead hedgehog lying on someone’s plot this Tuesday. Flora and I were both concerned that the animal looked to be in a healthy bodily condition – we thought it might be the victim of eating slugs that had ingested metaldehyde based slug pellets. But Rose later suggested that the hedgehog might have died after being accidently pierced by a fork while someone was turning a compost heap.

We have set up an online forum so plotholders can continue to chat with each other and exchange news, views, advice, arrange seed and plant swaps, etc.