Spring has Sprung

So much activity already, the birds are singing, building their nests, the bees are buzzing tending their hives, you can occasionally hear a plot-holder whistling or smell the bonfire signalling the site gradually waking up from its Winter slumber, So exciting

Sometimes when the weather is as glorious as it is at the moment the only thing to do is to take a stroll around the site and just stop for a moment and take in the sights that tell us that Spring has finally sprung (especially when I have American friends on Facebook in different states still on Snow Watch !! cant help but feel incredibly lucky )

 

 
 

When you see a sky as blue as this its hard not to feel uplifted

 

 

Sun Shining through the trees

 

 

 

 

 

 Buds and Blossom on the trees just waiting for the right moment to burst

 







 

Flowers in full bloom spots of colour scattered around

 

 

Even here in the most inhospitable place, behind a wire fence nearly strangled with weeds a Daffodil still manages to reach through and blow its yellow trumpet loud and proud

 

 

 









While what looks like a queen bumble bee collects the sweet nectar ready to start her hive again

MASSIVE seed discount

 

 

 

Thanks to one of our members we have managed to secure a discount code for Sutton Seeds which offers 40% off seed orders and 10% off everything else.

Orders can be placed - Online, or via post, or phone

Online link to Suttons Seeds can be found here :

http://www.suttons.co.uk/

In addition to seed orders the site has so much information, what to plant month by month and a knowledge base which as far as I can see answers any question you could possibly have for gardening !

or why not sign up for their newsletter when you receive additional offers direct to your inbox

Now for the all important code, enter this at your checkout and the deductions should be applied

GS4045C

Happy plotting

Working team

Plot holders work hard, and have a tough job just maintaining their own plots, which we all know is time consuming at the best of times but as part of the committee on an allotment site there is always the thankless task of maintenance and improvement jobs, you know the type of jobs,  the ones that get done, everybody assumes the bramble fairy does them in the night, but the type of job that everybody benefits from.

Unfortunately, funding for this has to be sourced from the many fundraising events that the site hosts or by funding applications. After many, many submitted applications the society were lucky to have been awarded a grant to enable us to erect a canopy above the shop cabin, and thanks to a hardworking team of men who have worked extremely hard, this means that now the front of the cabin is sheltered we are able to utilise in many ways not least to hold sessions of kids club outside, and in the future will be used host to many cake sales to raise more funds.... or just sit in the benches, watch the world go by and listen to the birds

Thank you so much to the hardworking team for your time spent on achieving all of this



View from the front, you can see the full canopy, together with seating to either side of the door, just off the side of the picture we also have picnic tables

                                  

 

 





Side view, attached to the outside posts, waste bins with hazard tape with drain pipe and taps attached filling with rain water  making communal water butts

 

 

 

And again further over to the left, a cob oven made during one of our community events which now that the cabin has been improved we are hoping to make more use of, pizza freshly made out of the oven anyone ??!!

 

 

 

 

Easter Egg Hunt !!!!!

*** SEED SWAP DAY ***

Welcome

On the tiny Peninsula of Wirral, tucked away behind houses so neatly that unless you knew it was there you would drive past all 3 different entrances and you wouldn't even notice them you will find Bebington Road Allotments.  This is the home of the biggest allotment site in the North West with over 260 plots on site, and we are lucky enough to have one of them!

But we thought we should share this gem with you and let you know of all the fundraising events and all of the fantastic changes that are going to be happening to the site..... you'll wish you were here too !!