Community Allotment
Gardening sessions
Community Allotment open gardening sessions, enabling residents to learn about growing their own produce. We have raised beds both outdoors an inside a polytunnel - come and grow with us! - See our events calendar for information on upcoming gardening sessions. If you are new to the sessions message sustainabledidcot@gmail.com to let us know you will be joining us.
About the site
We have a community allotment at New Road allotment site situated by Fleet Meadow Community Hall and Restore (map below).
There is a separate facebook page for the community allotment - https://www.facebook.com/Didcot-Community-Allotment-880150035407025
To get involved in the community allotment:
come to a regular group gardening sessions - currently Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings, check our events calendar for up-to-date information on sessions dates and times.
if you can't make the group gardening sessions we are happy to meet up with you individually and give you a tour. There's usually one of us up at the site on Saturday or Sunday so we can just arrange to be there when you can make it
We share the site, the work, the decision making and the harvest. If you've made the effort to turn up, even briefly, you can take crops away - but please consider others who might also like a share. If you really want to grow something, say so and we'll make sure there's space.
You can also help yourself to coffee grounds from Cornerstone, which are in the bin next to the shed for your compost or as slug repellent. If you use a lot of our coffee grounds please consider helping with our collection rota.
Sometimes we have picnics or bonfires (within the permitted period) and we're considering other socials there too
We are open for other suggestions on how to make this an allotment open to the whole community
What's the site like?
Our main plot has a polytunnel,four raised beds and some raspberries canes, as well as hosting our shed, coffee grounds bin and water butts
