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Do you enjoy an allotment?

20/4/2017

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Nolly's Allotment and well known allotmenteers! Painting by Mary Gundry
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Painting by Margo Noyes
The joys of allotments are considerable and we award a beautiful trophy for the best Allotment.  Could it be yours or can you nominate one you admire? Please send us lovely pictures
​Iur Children's allotment sets us high standards thanks to Gill Coulson and her team.
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News from Suffolk Master Composters

15/4/2017

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Our wonderful local Rose Supplier - Roses Eddie Krutysza Hatton Farm Metfield <hattensfarmnurseries@gmail.com>

9/4/2017

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Eddie trained in the 60's as a horticulturalist at Notcutts when it was a top Nursery but always wanted to have his own business and a farm with cows. In 2010 he moved to the dream farm in Metfield where his collection of roses is quite amazing! All our roses now come from him. But it has everything else you can think of and his Open Days like on Sunday are not to be missed.
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Cheap but brilliant fertiliser!

9/4/2017

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Comfrey grows like a weed in my garden but I love it! It looks rather like pulmonaria without spotty leaves but the whole plant is a brilliant mulch and rotted dow a stinky but stunning fertiliser
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My comfrey is the wild sort but I don't mind it being round the garden!
Grow Your Own Fertiliser Using Comfrey  written by Jeremy Dore 
Achieving Horticultural Excellence

When it comes to feeding plants, nothing beats organic compost.  Good compost contains the ideal range of nutrients which are released slowly into the ground as plants need them.  
Comfrey is a large herb, native to Europe, which grows prolifically in damp places such as river banks.  As such, it can easily get out of control in a garden, so would not normally be deliberately introduced.  However in the 1950s the organic pioneer Lawrence Hills (founder of the organisation now known as Garden Organic) developed a strain of Russian comfrey named Bocking 14 which is sterile and will therefore not seed itself all around the garden.  To propagate it root cuttings are taken although these are best bought from a reputable supplier (such as the Organic Gardening Catalogue in the UK) to ensure that you get the Bocking 14 variety.  It easily roots and grows very quickly so it is best to plant it in its own bed to prevent it taking over an existing area.  [A word of warning: wherever you grow it don’t ever expect to eliminate it as its root system is very hard to kill]

There are many great ways to use comfrey around the garden:
  • Mulch: Leaves can be cut and left to wilt for a couple of days before piling them around hungry plants such as potatoes and tomatoes as a thick mulch.
  • Dig in: Wilted leaves can be dug into ground that is being prepared for a new crop and will break down to give an excellent feed.
  • Liquid Fertiliser: Comfrey leaves can be crammed into a large container with a hole in the bottom with a small container underneath to catch the thick black liquid which will be produced in a few weeks.  Weighing the comfrey down with an old brick will help this process and some people add rainwater but this does make the resulting ‘comfrey tea’ smell awful!  Once produced, the liquid should be diluted 15:1 with water before using it as a leaf feed for plants such as tomatoes.
  • Potting Soil: Comfrey leaves can be shredded and mixed with leaf-mould to produce a balanced soil for plants in pots, although it is a little strong for young seedlings.
  • Compost Activator: Adding high-nitrogen sources is a great way to boost ‘hot-composting’ if you have the right balance of green and brown shredded material.  Comfrey, being high in nitrogen, is ideal for this and should be well combined with the whole mixture rather than adding it as a layer.
So. Comfrey really is nature’s answer to fertiliser for organic gardeners and best of all it is free – the perfect plant supplement you can grow yourself.

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Halesworth Gardeners wonderful programme don't miss out

4/4/2017

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13th April        "Irises” - Gillian Morris of Woottens, Wenhaston

11th June
Beth Chatto (Morning)  /  Green Island Gardens (Afternoon)

             

30th July
Felbrigg Hall

           

2nd September
    Annual Show
   Contact Fiona Fletcher on 01986 873277 for tickets
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Remember Summer!!

15/10/2016

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An amazing Gardener we try to emulate - Vita Sackville-West

10/10/2016

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'Gardening is surely an ideal profession
wrote writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West in The Women’s Land Army, published in 1944.
 
She once defined her approach as “profusion, even extravagance and exuberance, within confines of the utmost linear severity”, and her style is characterised by abundant planting enhanced by self-seeding, a careful shading and blending of colours and a passion for roses, traits which later found echoes in the work of Rosemary Verey, among others. Self-taught, experimental, romantic but also ruthless in her approach, she was the ultimate amateur genius. Her gardening appears quintessentially “English”
Below are some pictures of Sissinghurst in Kent Vita's wonderful garden
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Our Spring Bulbs have arrived! Thanks to a tip from Alan Witherby we have ordered and had delivered some superb bulbs for our fifth year of Town Bulb Planting, from the Anglian Bulb Company who were awarded  Best Buy title holders from 'Which' see angli

8/10/2016

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Tracy Coyne is a skilled horticulturalist who has worked in Holland and knows how to get the best bulbs. You can see these at Rydal Mount Wissett every Spring. She and her team pack the bulbs themselves so every one is top notch.
See the white hyacinths which will be potted up and then Festively decorated by our Halesworth Brownies to gift to our Housebounders in Halesworth.
​The February Gold are filling in the last gap in the swathes of golden yellow along Walpole Road Green.

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    • Halesworth Organisations >
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    • Keep Britain Tidy
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    • Love Parks
    • Royal Horticultural Society
    • The Great British Spring Clean