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• Fingal County Council notice: - notice issued to all allotment holders in relation to the Allotment committee, Raths & Green waste and the Maintence of Herbaceous flowerbeds in the main carpark and overflow carpark - January 2012 >>>>
• The Allotment Harvester Newsletter: This is a new publication written directly for the plot holders of allotments in association with O'Brien's Plug Plants and Nurseries. Their aim is to work in partnership with allotment harvesters to provide a service, to best promote the use of allotment grow your own produce and to help to maximise the potential of what can be grown from your plot. September newsletter available here now >>>
  

• Farmer's Market each Saturday at 11am - 3pm - St Patrick's Hall, Donabate, Great produce including fresh fish, locally produced organic meats, cheeses, jams, chutneys, cakes, breads and more. Also pick up a fresh coffee from the coffee van whilst you browse the stalls. Click here for more information >> (The market is currently posponed for the winter season)
  
  If you would like to sell your cooking, craft or home produced produce at the market please get in touch with us. We have the facilities available to help you make a bit of money from your skills! The market is a really friendly, easy-going environment and we have regular stall holders who are happy to show you the ropes. Give Sean a call on 086 601 5746 if you'd like to take a stall.

• Organic Seed Company - Bogach Farm are a new Organic seed company based in Ballivor Co Meath. If you require seed the can log on at www.bogachfarm.ie. They have 160 varieties of seed at the moment and wiil be getting more.

• 10% discount to all Turvey Allotment holders at Tully Plant Centre and Nurseries . Click here for their website >>

A Guide to Vegetable Growing
Teagasc Kinsealy has recently updated its publication, A Guide to Vegetable Growing , by Stephen Alexander (fourth edition), which is a useful reference guide for anyone interested in growing their own. Copies are available free of charge from Teagasc Kinsealy at 01-8459000, or e-mail at stephen.alexander@teagasc.ie.

Information

You will find a large amount of information through this site to assist you with running and maintaining an allotment. If you want to know more information on allotments - you can view our Questions and answers . We also have some information on getting started on your plot. Please remember there are lots of like minded folk with plots next to yours ready to offer help and assistance.

igrow and Tozer Seeds
igrow, the Irish online store serving the gardener, allotment grower, home grower and small commercial grower, has just become the exclusive Irish web partner for Tozer Seeds, the UK's largest vegetable seed breeding company. igrow can now offer a range of vegetables in small to medium packs suitable to all growers. Log on to www.igrowstore.ie and see the full range of Tozer Seeds together with a large range of vegetable and fruit fertilisers specially formulated for the keen grower.