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The Green Fingers Allotment 

Green Fingers is our multi-award winning allotment project, set up by Stepping Stones in Autumn 2006.  We currently have two adjoining allotment sites in North Norwich, where students and staff grow a variety of vegetables, fruit and flowers.  We make good use of the produce in our kitchen at the centre.  It's great to have freshly picked, locally grown vegetables for our lunch.  We also make jams and chutneys.

We have recently been awarded a Level 5 Certificate of 'Outstanding' in the  RHS Britain in Bloom 'It's Your Neighbourhood' Awards 2010. 

Spring Time for Green Fingers   

It has been a slow Spring weather-wise but things are happening on the  Allotment. 

We are experimenting with strawberry containers this year.  We have an old kettle, a watering can, an old tyre, a wine carrier and an ice bucket.  Someone found an old beach bucket and we are also using our old broken coffee maker from the centre. We have filled the containers up strawberry plants.  We have also been sowing lots of seeds including:  tomatoes, chillies, peppers, squashes, courgettes, cucumbers, broccoli and sweet-corn. 

LG “ I sowed some seeds.  The seeds were chillies

Strawberry PlantingChilli Seedlings

called Jalapeño and they are the chillies you put on pizza.  I used a tray that was split into squares.  I put some compost in each square and I put 2 seeds in each square.  I covered them all with a bit more compost.  I watered them and sprayed them with a mist of water too...”                                                                                               May 2010

A Green House for Our Green Fingers

It’s rather too cold to be down on the allotment at the   moment.  It was covered in snow for quite a while after Christmas.  In the meantime our green house is up and has withstood the Winter.  We have a few plants sheltering in there from the cold,  and we are looking forward to sowing our seeds earlier this year thanks to the extra protection the greenhouse will give our early seedlings. 

Jan 2010

greenhouse 2009

Green Fingers Awards

RHS Britain in Bloom 'It's Your Neighbourhood'  2010
Level Five 'Outstanding'

Norwich in Bloom Allotment Competition 2010
3rd Prize

Norwich in Bloom Local Environment Competitions 2009

Super Award

RHS Britain in Bloom Neighbourhood Awards 2009
Outstanding

Kettle Foods Ltd Potato Growing Competition 2009
2nd Prize

Notcutts Norwich in Bloom Summer Competitions 2008
Best Allotment New Comer First Prize
Best Allotment First Prize
Tallest Sunflower First Prize

Anglia in Bloom Garden For Special Needs Award 2008 - First Prize

To see a FLICKR Slideshow of  

The Green Fingers Allotment click here

 

We always have jams and chutneys for sale and sometimes have surplus vegetables too. 

If you would like to know when we have produce available please send an email to: greenfingersproject@yahoo.co.uk

   
   
 

Green Fingers Archive

Nicky's Report - Spring 2009

Prize Winners 2008

BBC Garden Show

Summer 2007 Update

Allotment Clearance Autumn 2006

 

 

 

 

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