Crops

Favourites

All the favourites, such as potatoes, beans, peas, brassicas, onions and leeks, do reasonably well with a modicum of care.

Fruits

Soft fruits are successfully grown by many members, including strawberries, raspberries, red- and whitecurrants and blackberries.

A number of plots have fruit trees which can yield good crops of apples and plums, although this varies from year to year.

One or two members are even cultivating grapevines, the produce of which is then presumably used to produce their own New Malden ‘grand cru’!

Vegetables

Maize can be seen on several plots, as can pumpkins and various types of squash. One or two members have also successfully grown more exotic plants such as aubergines and chilli peppers.

Tomatoes (which we're calling vegetables!) can be grown very successfully here, although we have had probelms with blight in recent years. Keep an eye on our forum, once it's running, as we would like to monitor how people get on with their tomatoes and whether anyone has any success with different ways of beating the blight.

Others

Some plot holders produce fabulous displays of flowers, including sub-tropical flowers and majestic sunflowers.

Salad vegetables, including many kinds of lettuce, and herbs are also widely grown.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth!
Has life anything better to offer than this?
Beverley Nichols