Newsletter – August 2026

Dates for your diary:

• BBQ Social – Saturday 15th August 4-7pm
• Coffee Morning – Sunday 23rd August 11am-12.30pm
• Autumn Working Party – Sunday 27th September 10am-12noon

In this issue:

• What to do in August

  August is a busy month on the allotment focused on harvesting crops, pruning fruit, and sowing fast-growing autumn greens. Key tasks (apart from the obvious…

• Summer Social Review

  What a lovely day the Summer Social turned out to be! A huge thank you to all our volunteers who helped make it happen, and to…

• New website – Coming soon!

  We’re launching a shiny new allotment website in September, and having seen all the creative ways of using courgettes in the Summer Social, we’d love…

• Yellow Legged Hornet Alert

  A Yellow Legged Hornet (formerly the Asian Hornet) has been spotted in Sunbury. This is a ferociously invasive species and alarmingly close. It is particularly important for allotment…

• Association Subscriptions

  ** Friendly Reminder: 2026 Annual Subs Due! ** Can you believe it is August already? Time flies when you are busy on the plot! Currently,…

• Allotment Committee Report

  August 1, 2026 The most significant (startling!) matter discussed was Mike Wren’s sudden announcement that, after 36 years on the committee, he needed to step away…

• Situations vacant

  We have vacancies for those handy person types among us, who would be prepared to make a bird box or two (or more) to support our ‘pesticides…

• Chris’ Corner

  I feel the need to disabuse some people of the notion that all committee members are part of the mafia. Rumours are easy to start…