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Did you know that if your garlic doesn't get a long cold spell it will never form bulbs? Now that the Store has garlic for planting you can research what will make it grow well. General advice seems to be a several weeks in the fridge followed by deep planting in well drained soil. You can use onion fertiliser as you prepare the bed. There's a mass of information online, but try the Garlic Farm or the RHS advice or watch on Youtube here .

are plotholders at the Dover House Road allotments, as well as having an amazing biodome within their school grounds. Both offer wonderful opportunities for their pupils to learn about the environment, where our food comes from and the work that goes into putting food on our tables. The children are keen gardeners but would love a little help from members to get themselves going......so please read more and see if you can help. Read more in Members' News

Max Reeves has finally published his quirky book of photographs of London Scarecrows, most of which are on allotments. Any members who let Max know about scarecrows might like to know that he is still collecting sightings! Contact him through the RGS. You can find out more from entropy press

Our Roehampton are busy developing a new community garden 'Shared Roots'. They are looking to hire an enthusiastic person with community gardening experience who will be able to deliver mindful volunteering sessions and gardening workshops from November 2026-April 2027. Find out more here - or for an informal discussion please email garden co-ordinator Preya, preya.chauhan@ourroehampton.org.

The Roehampton Garden Society Autumn Show was held on Saturday 12 September inside St Margaret’s church. After the very hot summer, we wondered if we there would be any crops left to show but we needn’t have worried as lots of plot holders had plenty of things to enter - did someone say cherry tomatoes? We had lots of new people visiting the show thanks to some great publicity on a local website. Click here for the full report.

The Roehampton Garden Society Autumn Show was held on Saturday 12 September inside St Margaret’s church. After the very hot summer, we wondered if we there would be any crops left to show but we needn’t have worried as lots of plot holders had plenty of things to enter - did someone say cherry tomatoes? We had lots of new people visiting the show thanks to some great publicity on a local website. Read the full report in our Member's Area.

It was lovely to see so many of you at our Autumn Show. A busy afternoon as we all admired the exhibits and treated ourselves and our guests to tea. Our thanks to all who worked the show cafe and all who baked the excellent cakes. In spite of a tricky growing season there was much to see - and, of course, tomatoes nearly took over! Congratulations to Show chair, Carol Martinez, and her hard working team. Click on the slide show below....

Download the Entry form and Schedule of classes. Try your hand at entering your produce and come and enjoy the show.

The French word for this vegetable is aubergine. When European settlers originally brought the aubergine to the United States, they brought a white version and these egg-shaped, pale vegetables inspired the name “eggplant” because they looked like goose eggs.

with lemon curd and cream cheese Find this recipe here on Curlyscooking.co.uk

from Claudia Roden - middle eastern cookery - delicious and easy...

Site 3 looked lovely on a balmy summer evening hosting a very enjoyable drinks party for us all. The 'nibbles' were spectacular and the company diverting - so many others we hadn't met before. Our grateful thanks to Kate and Richard for their hard work and congratulations on a very successful event.

Who knew …. A farm on top of Wimbledon Quarter shopping centre?? Amazingly there is! Informative and interesting tours take place each month during the growing season where you can see container grown fruit and vegetables and the rooms used to produce oyster mushrooms. You can also admire, from afar, the farm rooftop beehives, moved further away from people for swarming season. (Purchase the honey in the Old Fire Station cafe on Queens Road.) They produced 298 jars last year!

Small space and container planting and companion planting are interesting features on a visit to the rooftop farm. ‘3 Sisters’ planting is sweetcorn planted next to french beans that will climb up the corn stems and squash planted in between the corn to give a beneficial effect from nitrogen fixing. All the crops benefit. The varieties you use do matter, for instance a large and rampant squash would be very difficult to control in a container. Three Sisters Planting French be

Tea and bunting It was the year of the cactus. The strikingly tall pot plant dominated the tables for the summer show. In spite of some very mixed weather in the weeks just before the show there were still some good crops to display. The cakes for tea were as good as ever- and enjoyed in the outside sunshine. Thanks to David and Mariangela Renshaw for running an entertaining auction (above). A lovely relaxed event.

On a beautiful sunny morning members of the RGS gathered at St Margaret’s church to remember Jeannette Sweetland, a plotholder on Site 3, who died a few weeks ago. Jeanette was known for her gardening expertise, interest in art and the natural world and beautifully kept allotment plot. She is much missed by her allotment friends and neighbours. We joined her friends and colleagues from St Margaret’s to share reminiscences of Jeanette’s many kindnesses and planted a lovely ros

Art-K art studios in Putney came to the allotments on 12 April and gave a most enjoyable Art Taster Session using watercolours to 12 RGS members. Many thanks to Sue for organising the event and to Steven, the teacher from Art-K. “Thank you for arranging this afternoon’s art session. I really enjoyed it and found it ever so relaxing. Stephen was lovely and it was well organised” Amanda Flint. Art K offer adult and children’s classes at their premises in Lacy Road. Photographs

Spring is here – we all love to notice signs of renewal of the season – but when exactly is the start of spring? There are three different measures we can use: Meteorological Fixed every year to ensure statistics are consistent throughout time. Spring in the northern hemisphere starts on 1 March and autumn on 1 September. Dates have been decided using temperature data. Astronomical Follows the equinox and can vary slightly each year. Spring falls between 19-23 March and autum

The Autumn Show was held on Saturday 30 August at St Margaret’s, inside the church. After the very hot summer, we began to wonder if there were any crops left to show but we needn’t have worried as lots of plot holders had plenty of things to enter - don’t mention tomatoes - and many visitors came to see the show. It's always nice to see new people. Our judge, Mark, a colleague from Earlsfield allotments, was very complimentary about the standard of entries, and the teas and

More than 90 people visited Site 2 as part of the NGS Open Gardens Scheme and enjoyed the RGS Summer show on the same day. Read the full report from Carol Martinez below...