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So, this long and eagerly awaited email is to remind you that it is not time to rest on your growing laurels. Instead, you will undoubtedly be tidying away the last of this year’s triumphs in the vegetable patch, putting your beds to ... er ... bed and already planning how you will increase your yields and defeat the aphid army, in a totally environmentally friendly manner.Firstly: Technology permitting, next year’s Potato Order form. Once again we have reduced the total quantities of stuff that we are ordering, to try to match the demands of the past few years. With this in mind, we would seriously urge you to pre-order as soon as possible in order to secure your preferences, although we will probably still be able to offer some for sale in February. If you want, you can email your order to us, or visit us at the hut on a Sunday morning. Onions, garlic, shallots etc are also on the list. Ooooh, and there is a rumour that the ever-popular bucket/potato competition will be making a return.Secondly: The Kings Seed order will be being placed on November 15th, or thereabouts. For a handling fee of £1.30, we hope to be able to offer members a discount of 50% off vegetable, herb and flower seeds, assuming that our order totals more than £200 altogether. Your order needs to be submitted by ourselves in order to qualify and, again, you can email this to us, or beat a path to the hut. We can build a little bit of flexibility into the date, but don’t want to repeat the excitement that we lived through earlier this year. Please let us know if you are running late AND please contact us if you do not receive acknowledgement of your order within 14 days of sending it to us.Thirdly: We have had a delivery of Peat Free Compost this week - Bloom and Gro Organic Peat Free 40L. It is new to the market!Finally, it has been lovely to see an increasing number of visitors to the hut, and to meet new allotment holders from both near and further afield. We look forward to seeing you sometime soon, and socially distanced cups of tea are on offer once more,Get them orders in!
