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BRIGHTON GROVE ALLOTMENTS

Brighton Grove
Rusholme
Manchester
M14 5JR
United Kingdom

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Allotment Show September 7 2025

Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual Allotment show this year. 

What super vegetables and fruit and especially flowers. And then also wonderful cakes and jams and chutneys.  Thank you to all of our allotmenteers who helped prepare the Hall in the morning and were still there this evening clearing up. 

Thank you to our two judges Jean Sykes and Simone Butt for their expertise. 

Thank you also to Afzal Khan, MP for his contribution.

And a special thank you to our musicians,   Abdulrahman and Zoe for their lovely songs. 

Thank you to the members of the audience who always seem to take great pleasure in the Show!

And the 2025 Show Awards went to…

The Jane Gill Decanter for the  Best in Show	Jenny Coomb’s BGAA Salver	Challenge Runners up	Allotment Challenge Cup
Bob & Kate Shaw	Leo Zeef	Nicky Johnson & Phil Pemberton	James Feely
George Gill Trophy for The Best Plot BGAA	The President’s Cup for the Best Cottage Garden	Elizabeth Pemberton Trophy for the Most Improved Plot	–
Kris McDermott	Christina Knox	Joint winners Heloise Goddard & Sam Brook	–

The following allotmenteers were awarded Certificates of Recognition for gathering more than ten point in the Allotment Challenge. Congratulations to all of the gardeners who submitted an exhibit – you all make the Show work!

• Glenys Taylor and Alistair Lennie
• Gavin and Amanda Childs
• Kris McDermott
• Shirley and Ian Jenner
• Natassia Measom
• Zoe Mulford and Bijan Parsia
• Leo Zeef
• Bob and Kate Shaw
• Roger Moore

The Gallery of garden produce and kitchen wonders by gardener

SHOP

We no longer stock slug pellets, tomato feed is available in 1.2l and 2.5l bottles and 6X chicken pellets are now available by the lb. with the self service products.

Please use the link above to look at our price list for members and associate members

The Annual Allotment Show 2024

Summary of Awards 2024

On Sunday 8th September gardeners from the Brighton Grove Allotments Association exhibited their best produce of the season at the Birch Community Centre.

The major awards went to:

The Jane Gill Trophy for the Best in Show	Jenny Coomb’s BGAA Salver	Challenge Runners up	Allotment Challenge Cup
Chris and Suzanne Cassidy	Natasia Measom	James Feely	Nicky Johnson & Phil Pemberton
Allotment Challenge Cup	George Gill Trophy for The Best Plot BGAA	The President’s Cup for the Best Cottage Garden	Elizabeth Pemberton Trophy for the Most Improved Plot
Nicky Johnson & Phil Pemberton	Ann French	Lina Jonusaityte	Mary Ong

Message from the Secretary

Hallo Gardeners

We have had a wonderful day at our Brighton Grove allotment annual show. Thank you to Yasmine and Andrea who did all the planning, to our 3 judges Jean, who eats her way through the exhibits, and Sarah and Melanie who loved our produce, and agreed it was much better than anything seen at the recent Tatton Show.  Thank you to Lynn and Lina for planning the tea and cakes and for their formidable team, Liz, Ian and Shirley who dealt with a massive queue of desperate Rusholme residents, fearful of missing out, and thank you to all those who made such lovely cakes.. Thank you to Afzal Khan MP who does us proud every year and went home with enough vegetables to make a delicious ratatouille.  Thank you to Polly and Ceridwen for their splendid idea of seed swapping and who then manned the stall with spare vegetables as well as seeds.  And an enormous thank you to all our gardeners who produced such lovely vegetables, flowers and homemade produce without which we would have no show.  Finally, a thank you to the children and their lovely contributions, with special mention to Abdulrahman Mahdi who sang us his allotment song and got the very biggest round of applause.

We raised £552.00 for the Rafiki Food Network.  This is the 3rd year we have supported them and as well as money, they will also receive a supply of vegetables.

And… massive thank you to Alistair, Roger, Kerry and Lewis who helped with the setting up.  And, of course, to the many helpers who cleared up at the end of the afternoon.

Susi Madron, Secretary

We have added a new page to the site to offer a little more detail on our joint project with United Utilities that has brought over 23,000 litres of stored rainwater to the site.

Please go to Rainwater Project

Slow Worms

Introducing our new gardeners…

Slow worms (Anguis fragilis) are being introduced into the Allotment and we hope that they will find companionship and mating friendships with us.

Slow worms are a perfect addition to have in your allotment as they eat garden pests including slugs. They also rely on insects, spiders, snails and earthworms.

As slow worms eat slugs, it’s really important that you don’t use toxic (metaldehyde) slug controls in the allotment. Such toxic controls are not available at our shop.

For more information (including slug management alternatives) please go to our slow worm page

The Gore Brook

From time to time the Gore Brooke, which runs through the allotment, will flood. We are, after all, situated on a flood plain!

However, this useful link will you take directly to the Brighton Grove debris screen’s level monitoring meter. This is situated alongside the allotment. Reference to the meter levels will be helpful from to time. Visit: Gore Brook water levels

The Department of Environment has more useful information on flooding preparations.

Seed Swap Services

If you save seed and would like to swap your seeds then the website below (a seed swapping on line site) may be what you are looking for:

https://seedswap.org.uk

Garden Organic offers a similar Heritage Seed Library swapping service for members. Taking part will entitle you to receive about six heritage seed varieties each year. https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl

Notice

SHOP CREDIT

ITEMS TAKEN ON CREDIT WILL NOW BE PAYABLE WITHIN 28 DAYS

Please set up payment by BACS. Bank details in the Cabin

FAO All plotholders: Water Conservation Measures

It is the responsibility of all plot holders to take the correct measures in ensuring water consumption is kept to the minimum as detailed in the Green book Schedule 2: Rule 21 – hosepipes should not be fitted to taps administered by the Council. However, the council will permit use of hosepipes to fill water containers for allotment purposes. Tenants must not water crops directly from a hosepipe. If you are found doing so, you may lose your tenancy.

Please read this link Manchester City Council