Show - New Children's Section

Attention Young Growers

Changes have been made to the Children’s Section of this year’s Show; this is an attempt to encourage young growers to grow vegetables and flowers. This section is open to all young growers up to the age of 16 at the 31/08/2025.

The Society have purchased a number of Children’s Starter Packs. These contain easy to grow vegetables and a tall sunflower to get those little ones started. All will give quick results and the sunflower and pumpkin will keep the interest going throughout the year.
Each pack contains 5 individual foils of: Sunflower Giant Single, Cress Plain, Carrot Paris Market, Radish French Breakfast and finally Pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern.

A copy of the Children’s Section is attached but in short there is a class for each of the five vegetables/flower. The only stipulation is that flower/vegetables have to be grown either in their parents garden or allotment and grown from the seeds provided by the NLHS.

Starter Packs are available from the Store as of 1^st March.

Cuttings Workshop

I will be giving a practical demonstration on taking chrysanthemum/soft wood cuttings on 29th March commencing approx 1000hrs. The location is at the NLHS Store, greenhouse. I think the maximum attendance will be approx 6 people should more people wish to attend then two sessions may take place.

The demonstration/workshop will include:

Suitable compost mix.

Rooting powder.

Selection of cutting material.

Cutting preparation.

Planting of prepared cuttings.

Should members have their own chrysanthemum cutting material they are welcome to bring them along.

Allocation is on a first come basis.

To book please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Magazine

The attached link is to the National Allotment Society's magazine.

https://online.flipbuilder.com/cwao/gsyb/

Summer Solstice Evening

The Summer Solstice evening will take place at the Store on 28th June starting at 7pm. As usual there will be a delicious buffet and evening of good fun making the evening our social event of the year.

The evening is for members and one guest.

To assist with the catering, please can you let Anne know if you are planning to attend, and if you have any dietary requirements.

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Annual Plant Sale

The Annual Plant Sale will take place, at the Store, on 25th May starting at 0900hours

Allotment and Liesure Gardeners Magazine

Follow this link to download the most recent issue of the National Allotment Society's magazine. To open the link, right click on the link and open in a new tab

https://online.flipbuilder.com/cwao/hvkd/

AGM - 2024

NLHS AGM

The NLHS AGM will take place on 3^rd April

followed by a talk by Mal Reynolds on

Chrysanthemums

I have rooted some 30 spray chrysanthemum cuttings which will be given away at the AGM. There are several varieties all of which are weather proof and can be grown in the garden borders. The deal is that those taking the cuttings will enter one vase in Class 64 in our September Show. The Class calls for a vase of three spray chrysanthemums.

Download -

agm-chrysanthemum-talk.pdf