Advance Warning. This site will be discontinued in June 2010. After that date the popular pages will still be available at this website. The allotment page on the Sunningdale Parish Council website will contain links to these articles, as well as being the sole source of Sunningdale Allotments' site news.
All growers are welcome to browse the content. See the About page to understand the basic objectives. If you are interested in a plot at Sunningdale read this and then contact Anne Martin, the clerk to Sunningdale Parish Council.
Please note that Sunningdale & District Garden Association (SADGA) now has its own website. Click here to go to its website.
Recent Additions
summary of all additions6 further links added to Other Site Histories
Updates to a Brief History of Allotments in England & Wales
Updates to a Brief History of UK Cultivation prior to the Allotment Movement
Thoughts on allotment books (New to Allotment? page)
Links: Allot More Allotments; Landshare; potato pests and diseases.
New to an Allotment?
Cultivation approaches
A History of Sunningdale Allotments
A Brief History of Allotments in England & Wales
A Brief History of Cultivation before Allotments
First Year Experiences
Other contents include:
SADGA (Sunningdale & District Gardening Association) pages
Sunningdale news and Sunningdale conditions
growing season summary
recipes for sprays and feeds
culinary recipes
pages on vegA-M, vegN-Z, herbs, salads and fruit
pictures - seasonal snaps, plot holder snaps & satellite view
summary of what is new on the site
links to other allotment site histories
downloads
useful links
about, copyright and acknowledgements.
January 24th 2010 - managed allotments!
Wimpole Hall Farm in Cambridgeshire, a National Trust site, is trying to persuade some locals to have managed allotments. This is aimed at busy people who like the idea of having an allotment but do not have the time. You pay £8 per week, according to a BBC article, and in return you can get somebody to work the plot and a weekly veg box. You dont even have to see your "plot". They are talking about 50 plots on an acre which according to my maths is roughly 3 poles per plot. If true, quite how you get a weekly veg box year round from such a small plot is beyond me.
January 11th 2010 - expensive allotments
Some people have decided that there is money to be made out of the current demand for allotments by buying / renting land and then letting it out as allotments. An article in The Ecologist describes a site in Kent where plots of 1000 square feet (approx. 3.6 poles) are being offered at £150 per annum. The average plot size at Sunningdale is just under 5 poles.
all Sunningdale News15th January 2010. The Parish Council is currently sending out its annual letters to all plot holders. It requests payment of the 2010 rent (which is the same as the 2009 figure) by 1st March 2010 at the latest. A copy of the new tenancy agreement is enclosed; it contains a number of minor changes, and all plot holders must sign a copy of this revised agreement by 15th March, 2010. Finally, the Parish Council has set Wednesday 5th May, 2010 as the date for the annual plot assessments.
29th December 2009. Good news for plot holders. Following successful negotiations between the Royal Borough and Surrey County Council, residents in Sunninghill, Sunningdale and Ascot can now once again use Surrey 's civic amenity site in Swift Lane, Bagshot - instead of making the longer trip to the borough's own CA site at Stafferton Way in Maidenhead. Please note that proof of SL5 residency will be required.
17th December 2009. Plot holder Ron Ogle has recently passed away.
