Site Inspection postponed....and free children's play equipment

Given the recent heavy rain, we've put back the date of our first full inspection until around the middle of April, just after Easter, to give a little more time for you to prepare your plot.

This children's play equipment belonged to a former tenant and is no longer needed by this tenant or by the new tenant of the plot. 
It's on the footpath near the green 'triangle' on the site. 
Please take any item(s) you have a good home for!

Spring has (almost) sprung!

We’re now in the first month of spring, though it looks like being a while before the weather – and the soil – is warm enough for a lot of serious sowing and planting.  If there are no really cold spells in the weather forecasts, we’ll be turning the water supply to the site back on in the second half of the coming week.  

If you have hedges that need trimming and/or any saplings growing in your plot or on its boundary, now is a good time to cut them back, before the bird nesting season gets under way.  Please keep any brash or branches on your plot.  If you can’t take them to the council tip or otherwise dispose of them on your plot (even woody brash will rot down for compost given time…), just cut them up and tuck them into the bottom of your hedge.

If you have garden tools that you use on your plot and you’re concerned about security, there will be police property marking sessions during the season where you can get any tools/wheelbarrows etc. marked for free.  Local sessions will be at Southlands Methodist Church, 97 Bishopthorpe Road, York, YO23 1NX on the following dates: June 1st, Aug 3rd, Oct 5th from 10.30am – 2.00pm.  North Yorkshire Police say:  "We will be there to talk about crime prevention and home security, and will be offering the free DotPeen property marking machine as well as the opportunity to sign up to North Yorkshire Police's community messaging service."

We’ll be doing this year’s first full inspection of plots on the site towards the end of March.  If there are any reasons why you won’t be able to have your plot ready for cultivation by then, other than obvious reasons that we’ll know about such as recently taking over a neglected plot, please let YACIO know      ( contact@yorkallotments.org ) so that they can advise us.

All the best,

Claire and Graham

Free tools at the shop!

 

We have a range of used gardening tools, which we’re happy to offer to members. 

The tools are free, although a donation to the association would be very much appreciated!   

The tools are available to view in the shop during opening times—

Saturdays 1.30 p.m.—3.30 p.m.;  
Sundays 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon.