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BKHome | Acknowledgements
Before we get into the growing links, if you are interested in an allotment at Sunningdale please contact Anne Martin at Sunningdale Parish Council. The Parish Council web site contains her contact details.
You will find links scattered throughout the various web pages on this site. Here, in addition, is a (hopefully) useful set of general links to other web sites. Let me know of any sites that you recommend.
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Henry Doubleday Research Association – the champions of organic growing – it contains a range of useful factsheets. Membership required to obtain full access to available information |
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Some free information but membership required to obtain full access |
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Includes useful articles on growing individual vegetables, fruit and herbs. |
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A useful site with a core set of articles on selected vegetable, fruit and herbs |
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Extremely useful site for new plot holders, It covers: clearing the site, digging and first year cultivation |
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| Growyourown.info | Comprehensive range of crops covered: good navigation, lots of pics and very readable |
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Useful site on the organic approach. Includes brief notes on the cultivation of selected crops |
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| Meiosis.co.uk | Excellent site with very useful information on recent soft fruit varieties. |
| Fredshed | enthusiast who reviews gardening and diy tools. |
| Plants for a Future | If you are into trying something new this site contains detailed info on plants (edible and medicinal); many are little known in the UK. |
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Arguably the most comprehensive web site for an allotment site that I have so far seen. It includes lots of links. |
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Personal site of an organic allotment holder. Well-written with good photos; concentrates on general aspects, i.e. no information on growing individual crops |
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Useful web site for those who are interested in no dig techniques. |
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Contains a fairly comprehensive set of useful “how to grow” pages. Appears to be American-based |
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Doctor George Cook’s site (alias allaboutliverpool.com) |
Another useful site for new plot holders. While David Frary’s site is more in-depth, George Cook’s pages major in photos, lots of them in fact. He appears to be quite a keen photographer |
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This has the makings of a solid, professional-looking site, marrying the background information that can be found on Wikipedia with some information on growing individual crops and a useful-looking set of links. However, it has a very limited set of crops at the moment. One possible disadvantage for us is that it looks US centric to my untutored eye |
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General Sites |
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This site is arguably the best forum in the
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A personal site that contains useful articles on many aspects of cultivation, a personal diary and links to other sites. It also hosts a popular forum (you have to register to be able to post items) |
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allows people and organisations to form a “community”. In this case it is the allotment & vegetable gardening community (or ring as it is called). In essence, it simply provides details of other allotment-related sites that can be browsed. |
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Diaries & Blogs |
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| Vortex's blog | Blog of a Sunningdale plot holder |
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People who maintain online diaries of their allotment experiences (linked through the allotment.org.uk site mentioned above) |
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I ought to make mention of blogs although I am a bit ambivalent about them (bah humbug!), but others love them. I have chosen this one because (a) she has recently written a book on allotments and (b) more importantly, it includes links to quite a few other allotment blogs … and you have to start somewhere. Blog search engines, e.g. Technorati, do not seem a great deal of help as far as I can see |
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Organisations |
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Contains information relating to the society, how to find an allotment, allotment law, et cetera. No information on cultivation |
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Useful for general information on their work but contains no detailed advice for the gardener that I can see |
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Miscellaneous |
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The Centre for Environmental Initiatives (working name ecolocal) has a section on advice for regenerating or improving allotment sites. |
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Has an international flavour |
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I am sure that many of you use the Met Office web site. The rainfall radar page provides an animated picture over the last 6 hours (based on snapshots taken every 30 minutes). It is very useful for making an informed opinion on the likelihood of rain during your planned visit to the plot. Note that as it downloads a lot of data it can be quite slow over a dial-up connection. |