News Articles and Links

NEW COMMITTEE MEMBER

We are delighted to announce that John Marshall has been elected to the Committee. John has been a member of the Society for many years and has won many trophies at our flower shows. He is an expert grower of Dahlias and Sweet Peas.

 

Welcome, JOHN.

 

Articles

Tips from Robert "Greenfingers" Walker

JUNE 2025

I recently read an article about allotments and found two interesting statements. ' On allotments there are no mistakes-just experiences that you probably would not want to repeat'. and 'some varieties are described as interesting but unlikely to be repeated'. Have you experimented and tried something new such as kohl rabi or artichokes ?  Incidentally freshly picked mangetout (eat all)  peas are delicious.
We are now in the middle of summer and plants (and weeds) are growing fast. If you have not already done so, it is still possible to sow tender vegetable seeds including tomatoes, beans, courgettes, marrows and sweet corn as well as the regulars of salad crops, spinach, peas, beans , kale and broccoli. In the flower garden dahlia  tubers can be safely planted out and many seeds sown such as cosmos, foxgloves, sweet william, poppy, viola, dianthus. These may need watering when freshly planted: try to get water to the roots and not on the stem or leaves (where it can cause scorch damage).
There are the usual tasks, cutting the lawn, dead heading flowers that have gone over, weeding and watering etc
Let us hope that you need to apply suncream before going out to enjoy the garden
Robert 'Greenfingers' Walker.

 


 

USEFUL LINKS

Royal Horticultural Society
website: www.rhs.org.uk

RHS Advice
website: www.rhs.org.uk/advice

National Garden Scheme
NGS Gardens in the UK by region
website: https://ngs.org.uk

NGS Gardens open in the following week
website: https://ngs.org.uk/gardens-open-this-coming-week/

The Flower Hut: Chiddingfold's flower business
website: www.the-flower-hut.co.uk 





 

We need your consent to load the translations

We use a third-party service to translate the website content that may collect data about your activity. Please review the details in the privacy policy and accept the service to view the translations.