Newsletter archive
Published: 1998 - 2015.
First issue, no. 1 published June 1998, final issue, no. 44 published September 2015.
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Plotholder no. 44, September 2015
In this issue:
- The Seed Store turns red
- Compost toilet appeal
- Reports and Photos from Seedy Sunday, the Plant Sale, the Summer Produce Show and the Hampton Wick Festival
- The latest episode of ‘A Plot in the dark’, our Mrs Maple detective story
- How Growmore Grows More Part 2 – Potassium
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Plotholder no. 43, February 2015
In this issue:
- New series on how Growmore grows more: N, P, K and your veg
- Results and photos from the Autumn Social
- The ancient art of hedge-laying
- The latest instalment in our Mrs Maple whodunnit
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Plotholder no. 42, July 2014
Contents include:
- Scouts visit to the plots
- What’s in our water? News of a study being carried out on the site
- Plotholders on Parade at the Hampton Wick Festival
- Swarm! Fred the beekeeper to the rescue!
- Dandelion wine – learn to love your weeds
- Memoirs of long-time plotholder George Loosemore
and the plot thickens as Mrs Maple is drawn further into the mysterious spate of crimes on the allotments….
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Plotholder no. 41, November 2013
Contents include:
- A fantastic write-up of the Seed Store project by Nick Baylis
- Results and photos from the Autumn Social
- A report on the AGM including Best Plot prize winners
- Updates on bonfires, workdays and the vehicle gate
and… for all of us feeling bereft after the conclusion of ‘Tarragon of Virtue’ we’ve a new series by Helen Nix. This time it’s a murder mystery set on the allotments and introducing the plotholder sleuth Mrs Maple.
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Plotholder no. 40, July 2013
Contents include:
- Start of the Seed Store Rebuild
- Plant Sale 2013 – some great photos of this successful event
- Making wine from your produce
- Gulp it’s the finale of Tarragon of Virtue don’t miss the moving,funny conclusion.
- Amazing Maize – a history
- Another Buried Treasure
- Ashley’s Quacking Adventure
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Plotholder no. 39, November 2012
Contents include:
- Sue’s Big Swim
- Cafe News
- Bees settle in to new homes
- The Autumn Social 2012 all the prizewinners and many great photos from the day
- Tarragon of Virtue catch up with the next instalment of our tense, romantic serial
- Sarah’s Winning Recipes
- Buried Treasure Mystery
- Shed competition
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Plotholder no. 38, March 2012
Contents include:
- What should happen to our fire-damaged Seed Store?
- Collapse of a section of the boundary wall
- Committee news
- AGM 2011
- Cafe news
- Royal Paddocks Allotments bees
- Your soil by Alan Buckingham
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Plotholder no. 37, October 2011
Contents include:
- Autumn Social and Produce Show report
- Forthcoming AGM
- Committee news
- Christmas Cafe
- Sue Croft – channel swimmer
- Rebuilding of the park wall
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Plotholder no. 36, May 2011
Contents include:
- Seedling sale report
- Tackling the clubroot menace
- Security
- Pump workshop
- Seedy Sunday
- Barbara Wood farewell interview
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Plotholder no. 35, Christmas 2010
Contents include:
- AGM report
- News from your committee
- First frost of the winter
- 2010 Autumn Social
- Tarragon of Virtue
- Soil know-how
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Plotholder no. 34, Summer 2010
Contents include:
- Keeping our water pumps working
- News from your committee
- All-new website
- Seedling sale picture gallery
- Hedging and coppicing
- Summer pest watch
- Book review
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Plotholder no. 33, Winter 2009/10
Contents include:
- Prizewinners 2009
- Aminopyralid is back!
- New faces on the committee
- Autumn Social picture gallery
- Tarragon of Virtue, chapter one
- Winter pruning
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Plotholder no. 32, Autumn 2009
Contents include:
- New site shed
- Autumn Social
- More monthly workdays
- Pumpkin carving
- Home-made fungicide
- Green manures
- Chutney recipes
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Plotholder no. 31. Spring 2009
Contents include:
- Fire!
- Monthly workdays
- February snow
- Site security
- Life underground: get to know your earthworms
- Bring in the bees
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Plotholder no. 30, Winter 2008/09
Contents include:
- George Loosemore: 2008 cup winner
- Inside our composting toilet
- The native hedge
- Jobs for winter and spring
- Highlights of the Autumn Social
- Couch potato shopping
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Plotholder no. 29, Summer 2008
Contents include:
- Seedling sale
- Our water supply
- New constitution
- Gardening for climate change
- Book reviews
- Pigeons
- Recipes
- The upside-down world of gardening
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Plotholder no. 28, March 2008
Contents include:
- Committee news
- Making organic liquid feed
- Firebug on loose
- Review of last year’s Autumn Social
- Fedging the compost toilet
- Useful and interesting websites and blogs
- Sarah’s suggestion for using rhubarb
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Plotholder no. 27, September 2007
Contents include:
- New constitution
- Queries answered by experts
- Allotments hit the big screen
- What’s cooking
- Wildlife matters
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Plotholder no. 26, April 2007
Contents include:
- At your convenience
- Top 10 least wanted diseases
- Welcome…
- Plot inspectionsIt’s hot to crop
- Attention
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Plotholder no. 25, February 2007
Contents include:
- All hands to the pumps
- In at the deep end
- Welcome…
- Meet the committee of 2007
- Top of the crops
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Plotholder no. 24, May 2006
Contents include:
- Birdwatch
- Top 10 pests
- Welcome…
- Plot inspectioRespect thy neighbour
- Push power
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Plotholder no. 23, February 2006
Contents include:
- Hop to it
- Straight As
- Well done!
- Man the pumps
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Plotholder no. 22, September 2005
Contents include:
- Preserving your homegrown produce
- Head turning brassicas
- Digging the dirt
- An orderly Kew
- Blight insight
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Plotholder no. 21, May 2005
Contents include:
- Wildlife on the edge
- Plant profile – nasturtium
- Welcome…
- Plot inspections
- New parking rules
- RHS top 10 crops
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Plotholder no. 20, February 2005
Contents include:
- Birdwatch part 2
- Raised beds
- Companion planting
- Welcomes and goodbyes
- Rents to rise
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Plotholder no. 19, October 2004
Contents include:
- A wet summer but wonderful growing weather
- Autumn Social and AGM
- Welcome…
- A sad goodbye
- Hanging gardens of Hampton Wick
- Are you gastronomically challenged?
- One cucumber plant is enough
- Making a path
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Plotholder no. 18, July 2004
Contents include:
- The same dilemma every summer
- Children at the Paddocks
- Picture this
- Beginner’s diary
- The mowers and strimmers
- Birdwatch in the Paddocks
- Home grown ladybirds, the gardener’s friend
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Plotholder no. 17, March 2004
Contents include:
- Spring’s round the corner
- Plotholders’ Committee 2004
- First aid jottings
- Welcomes…
- Angie Barker
- Road safetly
- Cucurbitae
- Roasted squash with herbs
- Prospect and refuge
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Plotholder no. 16, September 2003
Contents include:
- Gardeners, like farmers, always find a reason to complain
- Restoration 1
- Letters
- Carots can be difficult
- Welcomes etc
- Restoration 2
- Well well well…
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Plotholder no. 15, May 2003
Contents include:
- Many Gardeners’ Question Times ago
- The cup winner for 2002
- It takes all sorts
- Welcomes and goodbyes
- The rules
- Road safetly
- First find your path
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Plotholder no. 14, September 2002
Contents include:
- It’s that time of year again
- Site news
- The bonfire notice
- The buildings project
- Spare time – is it going out of fashion?
- One (or more) allotment persons went to mow
- Well preserved
- First aid on the allotment
- Tetanus injections
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Plotholder no. 13, May 2002
Contents include:
- Sunday parking trial to be extended
- Welcomes, goodbyes and get well soons
- A real beginner? Start here with some advice form Hans
- 21st century arrives – The Paddocks online
- A graduate writes back
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Plotholder no. 12, February 2002
Contents include:
- Questionnaire results – outbuilding renovation plans
- Welcomes, goodbyes and sadly, two deaths
- Mike Veysey’s committee retirement
- A number of tenants would like sheds
- Money for rubbish
- Rent rise
- Sunday parking
- Dutch Master
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Plotholder no. 11, September 2001
Contents include:
- Inside this issue is a questionnaire (see below for view/download link)
- Open day – the hottest of the year?
- Welcomes, goodbyes and congratualtions
- Twickenham Farmers’ Market
- A touch of the east
- Three buildings – our opportunity to decide
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Plotholder no. 10, May 2001
Contents include:
- Open Day at the Paddocks – 80 years young
- Plotholders do it in bulk
- Judgement Day
- Estate management
- At your convenience
- John Frith’s apple wine
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Plotholder no. 9, February 2001
Contents include:
- 2001 – A Space Odyssey?
- The plotholders’ Committee
- New double gates
- Muck makes magic
- Buildings
- The work of The National COuncil for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG) by Nicky Hartopp
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Plotholder no. 8, October 2000
Contents include:
- Open Day review
- Committee business
- RHS membership
- Nepali vegetable curry
- Slug stats
- “You’ll never guess what we’ve just done…”
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Plotholder no. 7, June 2000
Contents include:
- Open Day June 2000
- Anyone for squash?
- Welcome to new tenants
- Gardening can sometimes endanger your health
- The Locher’s gardening year
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Plotholder no. 6, February 2000
Contents include:
- Chairman’s report
- Committee members’ introductions
- Thank you Derek (Shails)
- Thank you Fred (Adams)
- The Locher’s Gardening Year
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Plotholder no. 5, October 1999
Contents include:
- The end of the gardening year…
- …and the AGM takes place on Friday 12th November
- Putting the plot to bed
- Good manners with Roundup
- Chairman’s report to the AGM
- Veteran plotholder clocks up more than 50 years’ service
- Extract from Sarah Onion’s Diary of a London Allotment
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Plotholder no. 4, June 1999
Contents include:
- Keeping our house in order
- …and site rulesPlot Inspections
- The Carlin Pea
- Saving seed
- Slugs
- Car parking
- Crime wave?
- Watering
- Social scene…
- …and drinks
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Plotholder no. 3, March 1999
Contents include:
- 1998 AGM report
- Committee targets
- Roundup (weedkiller)
- Runner Beans
- The Seed Store is open again
- A load of manure
- Companion planting
- Grandfather in the garden
- Two digging tips
- Spinach with pinenuts
- Come and celebrate the first day of spring
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Plotholder no. 2, October 1998
Contents include:
- AGM 1998
- Plot Lettings
- The Growing Year
- The Henry Doubleday Research Association
- Reference Books
- Paddocks Wildlife
- The Seed Store
- Manure
- And Finally…
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Plotholder no. 1, June 1998
Contents include:
- Paddocks Millennium Project
- Plot Inspections
- Vandalism and Theft
- Rubbish Removal
- Reference Books
- Annual Prizes
- Horse Manure
- And Finally…
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