• Gather to use fresh or store for later: Jerusalem artichokes, carrots, autumn cauliflowers, leeks, parsnips, maincrop potatoes, sprouts, pumpkins and winter squashes
• Use horticultural fleece to protect salads and late root crops
• Dig or fork over bare patches of ground once you’ve harvested and cleared your veg patch, mixing in organic matter as you go
• Plant overwintering onion sets and spring cabbage

With the EDACA membership year ending on 30 September 2024 renewal emails have been sent to members with email addresses, and posted to those without, on 20 September 2024.

We’ve added great new benefits for the upcoming year and it’s even easier to renew or join for the first time if you use our online application form and pay via online banking.

Details of our full benefits package and how to join online, or pay in person by cash or cheque in an association shop, can be found on our Membership page.

EDACA shops are now taking orders for the following varieties of seed potatoes – order deadline Sunday 27 October 2024.

1st early	2nd early	Main crop	Salad	Blight resistant
Aaron Pilot	Kestrel	Caledonian Rose	Charlotte	Organic Colleen (1st early)
Casablanca	Wilja	Cara	Jazzy	Acoustic(2nd early)
Maris Baird		Desiree		Java(main crop)
Pentland Javelin		King Edward
Rocket		Maris Peer
Swift		Organic Setana
		Picasso

To place your order please download and complete a seed potato order form and fill in the amount of seed potatoes you wish to order in pounds (our shops hold blank order forms).

A deposit of 25p per pound is required on ordering, remainder to be paid on collection – you will be advised of the total price per pound when our supplier delivers the potatoes.

Please take your completed order form and deposit into any EDACA shop by the order deadline of Sunday 27 October 2024:

• Boyatt Wood (St Catherine’s Road, Eastleigh) Sunday 10:30 – 11:30
• Lakeside (Rapide Close, Eastleigh) Sunday 09:00 – 12:00
• Underwood Road (Underwood Road, Bishopstoke) Saturday and Sunday 11:00 – 12:30
• Woodside (Leah Gardens, Eastleigh) Sunday 10:00 – 12:00

Please make sure you collect your potato order asap once notified it is in the association shop.

The collection point for your order will be:

Boyatt Wood – Boyatt Wood plot holders

Broomhill – Broomhill plot holders

Lakeside – Burns Close, Chestnut Avenue, Eagle Close, Jockey Lane, Lakeside, Monks Way, Ramalley, Tennyson Road plot holders and all Trading Members

Underwood Road – Jockey Lane and Underwood Road plot holders

Woodside – Lincoln’s Rise and Woodside plot holders

• Use horticultural fleece to cover late crops of salads and courgettes
• Sow overwintering onions as well as quick crops, such as baby spinach, for salad leaves
• Continue to harvest French and runner beans, autumn cauliflower, cabbages, lettuce, marrows, maincrop potatoes, pencil leeks, onions, rocket, shallots and spring onions
• Pot up herbs such as basil, chives, coriander mint and parsley
• Pick the first autumn fruiting raspberries and Conference pears, blackberries and apples as they ripen
• Prune cane fruits
• Leave root crops such as beetroot, carrots, parsnips, swedes and turnips in the ground for winter

• Keep on harvesting aubergines, French and runner beans, beetroot, carrots, chillies, courgettes, cucumbers, peas, peppers, potatoes, spinach and outdoor tomatoes.
• Once you’ve cleared any space, re-use it as quickly as possible by sowing fast-growing varieties that will be ready quickly such as lettuce and radishes.
• Harvest early varieties of eating apples, blackberries and summer raspberries. Prune other fruits once all of the fruit has been picked.

• Harvest asparagus, lettuce, peas, overwintering onions, early potatoes, radishes, rocket and spring onions
• Sow salad vegetables
• Pick gooseberries, redcurrants and strawberries
• Pull some rhubarb sticks, leaving others to develop
• Protect unripe fruit with netting
• Keep watering if the weather’s dry
• Hoe weeds