Association News June 2012
BBQ & ‘Hog Roast’
By popular demand Mr Pig is back. Come and join us in and around the Marque on the Allotments Site on Saturday July 28th 2012 for our annual BBQ. Join in the games or just sit back and relax. Tickets at £6.50 each are available by emailing Mick and Sylvie or ask at The Hut. Numbers are limited so book early. Limited seating will be available so please bring your own chair and drinks. There is a sample menu on our web site. See bottom of page for more details.
SEPTEMBER 2012 SHOW “PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS”
This year’s classes are: - Traditional craft/s, “Music”, East Anglian landscape and Rose/s. All photographs to be colour, minimum size 150x100mm/6" x 4" and maximum size 190 x 130mm/7.5" x 5" and mounted and taken within the last eighteen months.
PLOT HOLDERS SCARECROW COMPETITION
Judging will take place this month. Prizes, including a £20 Hut Voucher for the best Scarecrow, will be awarded at our Show in September.
30% OFF RHS MEMBERSHIP OFFER Individual member direct debit price £35.70. Gardening advice – monthly magazine - unlimited free days out at 80 glorious gardens all year & support your club who get £5 for every new member and you get a £5 RHS shop/plant voucher. Email Geoff Cox to get a RHS join form.
MEMBERS
Please e-mail your name and address to capel.allotments@btinternet.com to receive up to date club information on offers and events.
TWO DAY OPENING
THE HUT is open 10-12 noon Saturdays & Sundays throughout June.
JOIN’N’SAVE
Membership is just £4 a year and is open to both plot holders and non-plot holders alike, where ever you live. A visit to ‘THE HUT’ should easily recoup this investment when you take advantage of our special bulk buy prices.
ROTOVATOR AND CULTIVATOR HIRE
A rotovator and a cultivator are available for hire for on-site use only. The fee is £5 an hour or part thereof or £15 for four hours. Hire time runs from handover and ceases when the machine is returned to the machinery shed. Please email Clive to book this equipment or for any matters relating to the site.
TALK5V1SIT5&5TUFF! .
Open Gardens:-
Capel Open Gardens – Sunday June 10th gardens plus the allotments site from 2 – 6pm
Also – Long Melford – Bank Holiday Monday 4th – Grundisburgh, Burgh & Calpho Hidden Gardens – Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th – East Bergholt Sunday 10th ,11-5, £5 to view 14 gardens with hop-on-hop-off bus. Nayland - Sunday 17th June - Bury St. Edmunds Hidden Gardens – Sunday 17th June Chelsworth - Sunday 24th June and Cavendish - Chattisham - Chelsworth - Debenham - Felixstowe - Great Finborough - & Walsham le Willows
For more information & Other Local Open Gardens visit www.opengardens.co.uk . Click on Date Search and add month and county (Suffolk or Essex).
Capel Garden Club meet once a month in the Library at 7.30p.m. For further information emailt Eddie Cox, a guest pays £2 a time or £7 for annual membership.
Thursday 23rd June – Garden Outing
AND FINALLY……….the second round of judging for the annual Best Kept Allotment competition and best kept poly tunnel plot will take place at the end of June. The final judging will take place at the end of July.
AND FINALLY (2)………. Buying Seeds from Thompson and Morgan? please follow the link on the home page of this website to Thompson and Morgan – the association receives a small commission on any purchase you make and you pay the published price - thanks
AND FINALLY (3) BBQ DETAILS:-
CAPEL ALLOTMENTS ASSOCIATION
SUMMER BBQ & ‘HOG ROAST’
SATURDAY 28th July
AT the POUND LANE ALLOTMENTS SITE
TICKETS £6.50 AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS
SOME SEATING AVAILABLE
B.Y.O. DRINKS – CHAIRS
GIANT RAFFLE, GAMES, PRIZES
FOR TICKETS EMAIL MICK AND SYLVIE
Or at ‘THE HUT’
PRE - BOOKING IS REQUIRED TO FACILITATE CATERING
CLICK HERE FOR A SAMPLE MENU
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