The Leigh and District Cottage Garden Society   The Society was established in 1891. Its highlight each year is the Summer Show, normally held on a Saturday in late July, when there is all kinds of fun for young and old, as well as competitions in flowers, floral arrangements, pot plants, fruit and vegetables, home produce and many other traditional categories. Members of the Society are entitled to free admission to the marquee at the Summer Show. From February to November, except August, there is normally at least one event a month.  Enquiries about membership (adults £4, children 25p) or becoming a Patron (at least £10 subscription) to Douglas Frost.  The generosity of the Patrons enables the Society members' free entry to all talks and visits to local gardens (with light refreshments).  Members benefit greatly from a discount of 10% at some local garden centres.

SOME PAST EVENTS 2007
To view some past events click here

FUTURE EVENTS 2008
 

Saturday 6 September at 2.30 pm.  Autumn Show

Tuesday 30 September at 8 pm.  Talk by Laurie Rudham on Lavender Fields.

Tuesday 25 November at 8 pm.  Society's AGM in the Village Hall.


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Other Garden Societies

Brockham Green Horticultural Society.  Most events take place in the Recreation Ground Hall, Middle Street, starting at 7.30pm:

The Crawley Horticultural Society Shop
The shop is run by enthusiastic volunteers and has a wide variety of garden requirements at low prices.  It is situated in Ifield Avenue, West Green, Crawley (tel: 01293 535585), and is open on Sundays 9am to 12 noon, and from 4 March to 23 September on Saturdays .  From 5 April to 28 June it is also open from 6.30pm to 8.0pm.  You pay a modest subscription to become a member before using the shop.  The Society is looking for shoppers to keep the project running.

Exchange of old gardening magazines
The Committee has suggested that old garden magazines could be made available for others or for exchange through the web site.   If you have magazines you would like to pass on, or if you would like to receive old magazines, please email the Web Master on  to let him know.
 

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HINTS FOR THE MONTH SEPTEMBER

Some thoughts given to the Web Master are:

• Now is the time for compost.  All the garden clearance gives the food for the soil in a few years time.  Best to have three composts going, one for each of three years.  Don't forget the compost from the kitchen: coffee grounds, tea bags, vegetable left-overs etc.
• Sowing green manure on open spaces helps.
• Sow grass seed or turf as necessary.
• Prune cordon and espalier apples and pears, cutting new shoots back to three or four leaves.
• Divide up perennials.
• Take cuttings of geraniums and evergreen shrubs.
• Plant bulbs for a good spring showing.
• Clear out overgrown pond plant life.  Fish will require less food as the temperature drops with longer, cooler nights.
• Take off the second harvest of figs which will not ripen.

 What hints would you pass on for next month?  Please let the Web Master know on editor@leigh-surrey,org. 

If you need a shredder for a day or two see www.compostworks.org.uk
 

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: "Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade. While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives. From: "The Glory of the Garden" by Rudyard Kipling

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