Low Moor Allotments Association
York, United Kingdom.
Low Moor Allotments AssociationYork, United Kingdom. |
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 Contact Details: Susan Hughes (Site Secretary) Tel: 0794 195 63 14 Email: S.Hughes@yorksj.ac.uk |
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Low Moor currently has a waiting list of around 2 years. Please feel free to join the waiting list, but if you cannot wait that long, Fulford Parish Council are in the process of reviving abandoned allotments at Fordlands Road; contact Jean Fletcher on (01904) 728007. Yes, you can sell your excess produce if you wish! No, you don't have to grow vegetables! Interested in taking a plot? Go to our Getting Started page to find out why we love allotment gardening, a site map, how to do it, and where to get help and advice and other useful information.
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Latest News |
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03rd June 2007 |
Kester has now handed this web site over to Ivana, who will try not to mess it up too much. More importantly, please see the Minutes page for the latest newsletter. |
6th Feb 2007 |
IMPORTANT NEWS!! We have a new site secretary! Al Oswald has handed over his duties as site secretary to Susan Hughes. I'm sure everyone will wish Al all the best for the future and say a big thank you for turning Low Moor Allotments into the success it has been recently. Kester Clegg is also standing down as Treasurer. This post will be taken on by Angela Johnson, who we wish well. The accounts are in an embarrassingly good state of health, but the new shop is yet to be built and needs yet more funds... Is there anyone out there who would be willing to take on the running of the website? Please let me (kester@cs.york.ac.uk) know. One final note - the seed potatoes are a week or so late this year. They'll be there next week for sure. |
29th October 2006 |
Low Moor Allotments of course had one of the very earliest
blogs. Almost too cutting edge for anyone to know what it
was. But the rest of the world has now caught up, only several
years late. Sarah Walters has written to Al asking if there
is anyone interested in writing a blog for the Yorkshire Post?
If so, please get in touch with her direct (contact details
below). She asked: I was wondering if you had any allotment holders at Low Moor who you think might be willing to write a regular blog for us. We have two at the moment but we're looking for someone for others. (see other blogs) We would set everything up and then they would just login and write. We just want someone who's got the time and is quite chatty. They don't need to be the best gardener in the world, in fact, beginners would probably be better. Her phone number is: 0113 238 8459 |
27h September 2006 |
Newsletter from Al:
Please read our summer(-ish) Newsletter, together with a seed order form for the year ahead. Our trusty Storekeeper Frank has excelled himself, extending the range of seeds and still managing to offer 100 spinach seeds for a measly 5p. Please print out the form for yourself, which will save time, paper and postage costs. There will also be copies available in the Shop for collection. If I haven't heard from you by the end of this month, I will assume you can't print out the form and haven't picked one up from the Shop, so you will then receive a copy by post. In short, there's no way of escaping this seed order. Please note that you need to return your order by Monday November 6th at the absolute latest! |
25th September 2006 |
Minutes of the committee meeting held on the 11th September are here for your pleasure and enjoyment. They include notice of Kester giving up the position of treasurer and Al stepping down as secretary, and some suggestions on their replacements. |
4th September 2006 |
York Allotments Soil Tests. The BBC is reporting that the council is monitoring the levels of arsenic and lead at nearby Fulford Cross and other sites. You can read the report here. |
9th August 2006 |
Special pleas from the Kids Allotments! One for a visit and one for more people to get involved! Thanks to Angela for organising this. |
Saturday 22nd July
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OPEN DAY - Low Moor Allotments'
Community Kids' Allotment Please come and visit us on the plot and find out what the Saturday and Tuesday groups do. Enjoy some of our home-grown produce! All welcome. |
June 2006 |
A compendium of news for June from Al First, now that the sun’s actually shining occasionally, a gentle reminder that there is open play of Petanque (French boules) every Tuesday between 5.30pm and 7.30pm on the pitch that occupies the plot nearest the University. Bring your boules (cheap at Barnitt’s, but plenty of people have boules), a bottle and a bite to eat or barbeque ... or just turn up! Second, does anyone have a van, and if so would that someone be willing to pick up 8 water tubs from Wheldrake garden centre? They still owe us for exchange of noxious chemicals evicted from our shop last year. Incidentally, this may already be having a beneficial affect on the wildlife: more song thrushes have been recorded on the allotments and the Stray than for several years previously. If you can help, please give Frank a ring on 448409 or email frank. Lastly, with warmth as well as moisture, the grass will be shooting up. It is your responsibility to keep both your plot and your boundary in a state of reasonable tidiness, so that weeds do not seed onto other people’s plots. If you don’t have access to a strimmer or shears of your own, the association has a heavy-duty strimmer you can rent: contact Sarah on 612301. My protective leggings and helmet used to be kept in a bag that accompanied the strimmer, but they seem to have vanished: if anyone knows their whereabouts, I’d be very grateful, coz, there’s chain-sawing to be done! |
10th May 2006 |
The minutes of the AGM are here. The treasurer's reports are also available here. All these are usually safely stored away for prosperity in our Archives section. Enjoy! |
April 2006 |
AGM. Remember that the AGM will be held on Sunday 30th
April at 12 noon in the car park. Apart from elections, the thorny
issue of bonfires is on the agenda, and there will be Low Moor's
glitzy equivalent of the Oscars: the Best Plots and Most Improved
Plots Awards. Low Moor Petanque Club. The French boules playing season starts on Tuesday 2nd May from 5.30pm. The pitch is on the corner plot (no. 150) as you leave the Allotments to head towards the University across the Stray. There will be open petanque sessions every Tuesday from then onwards between 5.30- 7.30pm - all welcome. After the 2nd May, you can play any other time by just turning up. There is no booking system. Sets of steel and plastic boules are available to borrow from the Shop when it is open at weekends. At other times, you'll need to bring your own (you can get them from Barnitt's for about £7 per set). Enjoy yourselves and look forward to seeing you on Tuesdays! Donations for Ayse and Chris. In the wake of the arson attack on Chris & Ayse's shed/greenhouse, £240 in donations was raised; plot-neighbours also helped with the clearing up operation. Chris and Ayse have asked me to pass on their thanks for everyone's generosity. It has restored their faith in human nature and Ayse is determined to use the money to create a set of permanent raised beds for use by other people with mobility problems. Petty theft. Spring is here (perhaps), and with it car boot sales, which unfortunately bring with them an annual wave of petty theft. We have already had two minor but irritating thefts of gardening bits and bobs. If you suffer any thefts, please don't suffer in silence: report it to the Police on 0845 60 60 24 7. The higher the figures of reported crime, the more attention we can reasonably demand. If anyone wants to mark their tools with the Low Moor double band of red paint and stamp them with the Low Moor postcode, the equipment is available in the Shop. Apologies... to anyone who came to the Shop and found it closed on Easter Sunday. Acting Shopkeeper Ernie's wife passed out on her plot and Ernie understandably abandoned his post to take her to hospital. On behalf of everyone at Low Moor, get well soon, Jenny! Fence mending. If anyone can spare a couple of hours before the AGM - ie 10am till 12 noon on 30th April - there will be a rapid working party to repair the fence along the bottom edge of the Stray, re-using materials left over from the Council's recent repair of the stretch behind the petanque pitch. Expert carpenters and joiners should stand well back. Rotivator. Remember that as long as you've paid your £2 at the Shop to join the Association, you can hire the Low Moor rotavator for £10 per day. Phone Sarah O'Grady on 612301 to book. And if you haven't protected your Purple Sprouting Broccoli from those pesky pigeons by now, it's doomed. |
March 2006 |
We have the new dates for skips (these might include soil
improver loads as well - check in the shop for more
details!). Skips will be on Low Moor: 7-10 April 2-5 June 21-24 July 15-18 September. |
March 2006 |
Frank has asked me to let everyone know that he has stocked up again with lots of wood and posts. Best of all he has acquired some galvanised corrugated steel sheets, for sale at only £9 each for 8ft x 44" (2.4m x 1.0m) and only £10 each for 10ft x 44" (3.0m x 1.0m). These are ideal for constructing arson-proof sheds as well as for creating rabbit-proof fencing that doesn't get bound up with weeds, so get'em while they're hot! |
Feb 27th 2006 |
I’m sad to have to report that last night (Monday 27th - Tuesday 28th), we suffered our first serious arson attack in several years, which has destroyed a large shed/greenhouse on Plot 168, near the gate facing towards Hesligton Road. The attack is particularly sad because the shed was badly damaged in an arson attack on the adjacent shed several years ago, and had been lovingly restored by the current tenants, Ayse and Chris, with materials and practical help supplied by many of their neighbours. Ayse has serious spinal injuries and was only able to garden easily using table-top beds which she had created inside the greenhouse. She has also suffered several thefts of fruit bushes in recent years, but has always remained inspiringly positive. It would be an even greater disaster if Ayse was forced to give up her gardening by this latest incident. If anyone would like to make a donation of a few pounds to help her recreate the raised beds and start again, please send a cheque payable to 'Low Moor Allotments Association’ to me, or make a donation in the tin which will be in the Allotment Store over the coming weekends. Obviously, if anyone saw anything suspicious on Monday evening, please phone the police on 0845 60 60 247. |
12 noon on Sunday 30th April 2006 |
Annual General Meeting of Low Moor Allotments Association. If you haven't yet paid your £2 annual joining fee there's still plenty of time to visit the Store (on Saturday 12-2pm or Sunday 10am- 12) and join. The agenda will be displayed in due course; please send any additional agenda items to me by the end of March. Places at the meeting will be limited to around 2,500 due to the small size of the car park, so please turn up on time to avoid disappointment. |
16th Feb. 2006 |
The LMAA Management Committee met last week to discuss how things had progress over the winter months, the AGM and many other fascinating topics. The full gory details are available here. |
Friday 3rd March 2006 |
For those of you with growing piles of rubbish, the next skip will be arriving, usually at around lunchtime. PLEASE don't use it for weeds - even perennial ones - or anything that can be composted. Though the skip will be there all weekend, it will fill up quickly, so dump early to avoid disappointment. |
Thursday 23rd Feb 2006 |
Aldi, opposite the barracks on Fulford Road, is having a fruit tree promotion. In the past they've sold a range of cherries, apples, plums and pears, and even Frank can't compete with their low, low prices. Buy early to avoid disappointment. |
1st Feb 2006 |
A reminder that the Allotment Store re-opens this weekend (4th-5th February), opening times as ever are 12 till 2pm on Saturday and 10 till 12 noon on Sunday. Those who have ordered potatoes and onion sets will find them ready and waiting - please collect them this weekend or next. If you have not ordered spuds and onions, there are some spare, as well as various seeds: first come first served! And I'm told there's a fantastic view from the top of the manure heap. Frank has single-handedly done a huge amount of work stocking the Store and preparing the orders, so please shower him with gifts and praise. |
January, 2006 |
Happy New Year everybody! May we welcome back our secretary, Al, after his months away looking at rock paintings in Libya (yes, he did it last year as well!). Our news items for 2005 have been archived. |
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