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Information Sources
- Allotments
- Barnet Allotment Federation has some useful papers on self-management, including registering leases and changing trustees.
- Leeds City Council manages some allotment sites centrally.
- Composting and mulching
- Home Composting. Garden Organic’s pages on promoting composting in the community.
- Leeds Rotters is a group encouraging composting in Leeds.
- Crops
- Full Potato Varieties Database from the UK Potato Council. Information on hundreds of potato varieties, including details of disease resistance.
- Pests and diseases
- APHA is the UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency.
- Importing plant materials from abroad: RHS Advice.
- Hollin Lane’s list of pests and diseases that bedevil us in Leeds.
- Search RHS advice.
- Soil health
- Soil is Alive – useful leaflet (.pdf) from Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux.
- Royal Society report on soil structure.
- The Sustainable Soils Alliance is a partnership working to restore our soils to health.
- Sustainability
- Pesticide Action Network UK Science based information on pesticides, including disposal, and a useful guide to gardening without pesticides
- Measure Your Harvest is a citizen science project on allotments and urban food growing, based at University of Sheffield.
Organisations
- Feed Leeds is a network working to promote food growing in Leeds.
- Garden Organic is the UK’s main charity for organic growing.
- Leeds Beekeepers Association is the place to go for help with swarms and beekeeping advice.
- Leeds City Council Parks and Open Spaces is the place to look for Council run allotment sites.
- Linking Leeds is a social prescribing service for anyone who wants to be connected to services and activities (including gardening) in their community.
- The National Allotment Society (formerly NSALG) is the national representative body for the allotment movement in the UK.
- NAS Yorkshire, formerly ‘Yorkshire Allotment Gardeners Federation’, protects, promotes and preserves allotments in Yorkshire and Humberside.
- The National Vegetable Society is a UK charity dedicated to growing, study and improvement of vegetables.
- The Northern Fruit Group. Promoting fruit growing in the North of England.
- The Royal Horticultural Society has a wealth of information about all aspects of gardening.
- West Yorkshire Organic Group is a local group allied to Garden Organic.
Local Allotments on the Web
- Alwoodley Allotments
- Armley Ridge Road on Facebook
- Ash Road Allotments
- Burley Model Allotments
- Byelaw Men’s Field Allotments
- Church Lane Allotments
- Gledhow Valley (Chapel Allerton)
- Hayley’s Field Allotments on Facebook
- Headingley Station (West) on Facebook
- Hollin Lane Allotments
- Oakwood Lane Allotments
- Red Road Allotments on Facebook
- Roundhay Allotments
- Station Allotments, Headingley
- Toll Bar Field Allotments on Facebook
- Victoria Pit Allotments on Facebook
Suppliers
- The Arium is the new Council nursery and shop in Whinmoor. 10% LAF discount.
- Easynets 5% LAF discount. Use code Leeds15.
- Gro-Well Direct is the web site for Codnor Horticultural (Wholesale) Ltd, Ripley, Derbyshire. Trade prices for LAF.
- Kings Seeds Many sites put in a bulk order with Kings every autumn.
- LS6 Library of Things in Headingley lends tools and useful stuff instead of books. They are also on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
- Lumby Garden Centre, Leeds/Selby Rd, LS25 5LE. 15% LAF discount on most items apart from garden furniture.
- Mone Brothers Ltd Topsoils, Compost, Decorative Gravels, Aggregates 10% LAF discount.
- Mr Muck Mushroom compost, farmyard and organic manure.
- Palmers Plant Nursery, Calverley Ln, Pudsey, LS28 5QQ, 0113 236 2020
- Red Hall Nursery, part of Leeds City Council closed in October 2017, and everything moved to Arium.
- Posh Tat Decorative steel plant supports. 10% LAF discount online.
- Riverside Plants, Shadwell LS17 9JL. 10% LAF discount on plants.
- Woodend Nurseries, Preston La, Great Preston, Leeds, LS26 8AP. 0113 286 2888. 10% LAF discount.