Allotment project

£400 funding for allotment

September 2005: The group is grateful to have been given a grant from the Wales Churches Fund (WCF) to develop the allotment project. With this money the group will purchase a shed and some materiels to make the entrance safer and less slippery when wet. Hopefully we can also purchase some tools. At present all tools are on loan to the project from volunteers.





Short report by Trish Johns

The allotment is at the Caeperllan Rd Allotment site. We have been going every Tuesday and Saturday morning but as college has now started and most of the gardeners will be full time at Coleg Gwent (Nash) learning English we will probably have to just do Saturdays - but maybe a longer session



We have harvested french and runner beans, courgettes, sweet corn, marrows, swiss chard, potatoes, tomatos, aubergines, a range of different lettuces, radishes and carrots with plenty more to pick over the next month or so. We have some pumpkins fattening up nicely and have managed to stop the pigeons eating our cabbages and winter greens. Each week we share the produce picked between the people who have worked that morning. I have to raid the plastic bag recycling bin at Tesco's so that we have enough carrier bags to take it all home.

If you want to volunteer then please call Trish on 01633 668002