Growing Newsome Seed Swap & Huddersfield Potato Day – Saturday 2nd March 2024

Get your growing year off to a great start with our bumper early Spring event…

Seed Swap and Potato Day

Saturday 2nd March 2024
10am to 1pm

Venue: Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

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Huddersfield Potato Day

Choose from 26 different types of seed potato, including popular easy-to-grow varieties and some more unusual types. All seed potatoes are £2 per dozen (pick and mix) or 20p each. Our varieties are:

First earlies

Caledonian Pearl, Casablanca, Colleen (Organic), Foremost, Jazzy, Maris Bard, Red Duke of York, Rocket, Winston

Second earlies

Bambino (Organic), Charlotte (Organic), Kestrel, Maris Peer (Organic), Ratte, Sarpo Una (Organic)

Mains

Belle de Fontenay, Cara (Organic), Carolous (Organic), Desiree, Gatsby (Organic), Heidi Red (Organic), Picasso, Pink Fir Apple, Sarpo Axona (Organic), Sarpo Blue Danube, Sarpo Mira (Organic)

More info about our varieties:
Potato picker list 2024 (PDF)
Popular potato picks 2024

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Seed Swap

Seeds galore – We’ll have lots of vegetables, salads and other seeds. You can either bring something in to swap, or pick up some seeds in exchange for a small donation. Try our seed starter packs – ideal for growing in small spaces. Onion sets and shallots are also available to buy on the day.

Activities –  Enjoy seed planting activities with our Growing Newsome volunteers.

Local food on sale – Jam and other preserves made from fruit and veg grown in Newsome..

Plant protection materials – protect your homegrown crops.

Books – Book stall with all sorts of books.

Refreshments – Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Help with growing – Please ask for advice.

Plant pot & jam jar amnesty – Bring along your spare small plant pots or small jam jars. Please note that we can only use 1Ib jam jars or smaller, which will fit a standard 63mm screw top lid.

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Meet local organisations

Huddersfield Raw Honey – local honey and beekeeping info from Ryad Alsous.

Poppy’s Flowers / Roebuck Home and Garden – enter our competition on the day for a chance to win a beautiful flower arrangement, hand-crafted by our local florist.

Newsome Centre team – find out what’s happening with plans for our new community centre and how you can get involved.

Take part – If you’d like to come along promote your group or run an activity, or add your leaflets to our local information table, please get in touch soon.
Email: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Join us for lunch

served 12 noon to 1pm 

Enjoy a warming, two-course cooked lunch, featuring some local ingredients.

Free admission. All welcome. And please tell all your friends!

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Want to help?

Volunteer
We’re looking for volunteers to help out with our events and activities. Contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com to find out more, or ask on the day.

Print our poster
Help us to promote the event:
Huddersfield Potato Day 2024 (PDF)

Stalls

If your local group or organisation are interested in having a stall at one of our events, please get in touch: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Organised by Growing Newsome

With our special thanks to the
West Yorkshire Organic Group
for supporting our Potato Day.

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Garlic bulbs available in 2023

Our Autumn planting vegetables this year will include seven different varieties of garlic. Pick up your garlic from our Autumn event on Saturday 21st October from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ.

Garlic needs a month or more in the ground at a temperature of 10C or less, and Autumn planting gives you the best chance for this. So you can get planting yours soon – all you need to do is decide what sort to grow.

To help you choose, here are some notes…

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Carcassone Wight

• Exceptional hardneck garlic with pink cloves
• Great strength of flavour
• Good skin cover
• Has great vigour in the UK climate
• Can be planted in autumn or spring
• This variety was probably brought to Carcassonne by pilgrims travelling east

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Caulk Wight

• Purple-striped bulbs which resist splitting
• Hardneck variety from Eastern Europe
• Grows well in the UK climate
• Good flavour and easy to peel
• Perfect for autumn planting
• Harvest as early as June

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Germidour (organic)

• Fast growing French variety with high yields
• A rich purple head with ivory clove skins – very attractive non-flowering variety
• Can be strung or plaited
• Winner of RHS Award of Gardening Merit
• Plant October or November for harvest in June
• Lift as soon as mature. Should keep until December following harvesting

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Maddock Wight

• Excellent all round softneck garlic with large cloves. 
• Large fat white bulbs with purple stripes.
• Premium Iberian garlic, from south west Spain.
• Grows well in the UK and was probably grown here by the Romans.
• Purple when grown close to the surface.
• Best planted October to December.

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Picardy Wight

• Originally from the fields of Picardy, growing around the battllefields of the Somme
• Hardneck variety which copes really well with cooler and wetter conditions – will grow where other varieties have struggled
• Strong flavoured bulbs which store well
• Plant from October to March
• Harvest July to August

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Printanor (organic)

• A French heirloom softneck variety.
• Excellent taste and stores well.
• White bulbs – the cloves have a pink blush.
• Suitable for planting in the autumn.
• Can also be planted from January to March for a July harvest.

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Thermidrome (organic)

• A traditional variety producing large white heads with a hint of pink, and large white cloves
• Very hardy so ideal even in harsh conditions
• A non-flowering, softneck variety which can be strung or plaited
• Plant in October or November
• Harvest in July – the bulbs should then keep until the December following harvesting

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You can pick up your garlic bulbs from our Autumn event on Saturday 21st October from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall.

If you have a small garden or plot, getting your garlic from us means that you don’t need to buy a whole pack. It’s also great if you fancy planting more than one variety and you just want one bulb of each – or if you want lots, but want to save some pennies (and avoid paying for postage).

Although seed costs have increased again considerably for us this year, we’re keeping our prices at just £2 per bulb, to help cover some of our costs whilst supporting local growers.

We’ll have several varieties of onions, some shallots, vegetable seeds and plants available too.

If you can’t make it to our Autumn event, we will offer any remaining stock afterwards. You can Join our email list for updates.

Growing Newsome Seed Swap & Huddersfield Potato Day – Saturday 4th March 2023

Get your growing year off to a great start with our bumper early Spring event…

Seed Swap and Potato Day

Saturday 4th March 2023
10am to 1pm

Venue: Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

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Huddersfield Potato Day

Choose from 30 different types of seed potato, including popular easy-to-grow varieties and some more unusual types. All seed potatoes are £2 per dozen (pick and mix) or 20p each. Our varieties are:

First earlies

Casablanca (Organic), Colleen (Organic), Lady Christl, Maris Bard (Organic), Red Duke of York, Rocket, Sharpe’s Express, Winston

Second earlies

Bambino (Organic), Charlotte (Organic), Kestrel, Maris Peer (Organic), Nicola, Ratte, Sarpo Una (Organic)

Mains

Ambo (Organic), Belle de Fontenay, Cara (Organic), Carolous (Organic), Desiree, Heidi Red (Organic), Highland Burgundy Red, International Kidney, Java, Orla (Organic), Picasso, Pink Fir Apple, Salad Blue (Organic), Sarpo Kifli, Sarpo Mira (Organic)

More info about our varieties:
Potato picker list 2023 (PDF)
Popular potato picks 2023

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Seed Swap

Seeds galore – We’ll also have vegetable and salad seeds, lots of onion sets and shallots on offer. You can either swap, or pick up some seeds in exchange for a small donation. Try our seed starter packs – ideal for growing in small spaces.

Activities –  Enjoy seed planting and crafts for kids with our Growing Newsome volunteers.

Local food on sale – Jam and other preserves made from fruit and veg grown in Newsome..

Plant protection materials – protect your homegrown crops.

Books – Book stall with all sorts of books.

Refreshments – Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Help with growing – Please ask for advice.

Plant pot & jam jar amnesty – Bring along your spare small plant pots or small jam jars (we can only use 1Ib jam jars or smaller, which will fit a standard 63mm screw top lid).

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Meet local organisations

Huddersfield Raw Honey – local honey and beekeeping info from Ryad Alsous.

Kirklees Badger Protection Group – learn about badgers and find out how you can help them.

The Newsome Centre – find out more about plans to set up a new Community Centre, Cafe & Event Space in the former St John’s Church in Newsome village, and learn how you can help.

Local information – Come and promote your group or activity.

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Join us for lunch

served 12 noon to 1pm 

Enjoy a warming, two-course cooked lunch, featuring some local ingredients.

Free admission. All welcome. And please tell all your friends!

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Want to help?

Volunteer
We’re looking for volunteers to help out with our events and activities. Contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com to find out more, or ask on the day.

Print our poster
Help us to promote the event:
Huddersfield Potato Day 2023 (PDF)

Stalls

If your local group or organisation are interested in having a stall at one of our events, please get in touch: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Organised by Growing Newsome

With our special thanks to the
West Yorkshire Organic Group
for supporting our Potato Day.

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Garlic bulbs available in 2022

Our Autumn planting vegetables this year will include seven different varieties of garlic. Pick up your garlic from our Autumn event on Saturday 29th October from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ.

Garlic needs a month or more in the ground at a temperature of 10C or less, and Autumn planting gives you the best chance for this. So you can get planting yours soon – all you need to do is decide what sort to grow.

To help you choose, here are some notes…

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Carcassone Wight

• Exceptional hardneck garlic with pink cloves
• Great strength of flavour
• Good skin cover
• Has great vigour in the UK climate
• Can be planted in autumn or spring
• This variety was probably brought to Carcassonne by pilgrims travelling east

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Caulk Wight

• Purple-striped bulbs which resist splitting
• Hardneck variety from Eastern Europe
• Grows well in the UK climate
• Good flavour and easy to peel
• Perfect for autumn planting
• Harvest as early as June

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Germidour (organic)

• Fast growing French variety with high yields
• A rich purple head with ivory clove skins – very attractive non-flowering variety
• Can be strung or plaited
• Winner of RHS Award of Gardening Merit
• Plant October or November for harvest in June
• Lift as soon as mature. Should keep until December following harvesting

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Mersley Wight

• Has the best keeping quality (up to 10 months)
• Softneck variety well suited to UK growing
• Classic silverskin garlic
• Larger cloves and very vigorous
• Plant in late winter or ideally early spring
• Harvest in late July or early August

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Messidor (organic)

• A new, very attractive white variety
• Produces very high yields
• Strong roots – an excellent choice for our wet British winters 
• Harvest semi-dry from June
• Has 10-15 beige cloves per bulb
• Softneck variety with a rounded flavour

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Picardy Wight

• Originally from the fields of Picardy, growing around the battllefields of the Somme
• Hardneck variety which copes really well with cooler and wetter conditions – will grow where other varieties have struggled
• Strong flavoured bulbs which store well
• Plant from October to March
• Harvest July to August

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Thermidrome (organic)

• A traditional variety producing large white heads with a hint of pink, and large white cloves
• Very hardy so ideal even in harsh conditions
• A non-flowering, softneck variety which can be strung or plaited
• Plant in October or November
• Harvest in July – the bulbs should then keep until the December following harvesting

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You can pick up your garlic bulbs from our Autumn event on Saturday 29th October from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall.

If you have a small garden or plot, getting your garlic from us means that you don’t need to buy a whole pack. It’s also great if you fancy planting more than one variety and you just want one bulb of each – or if you want lots, but want to save some pennies (and avoid paying for postage). Although seed costs have increased for us this year, we’re keeping our prices at just £2 per bulb (which helps towards covering our costs).

We’ll have several varieties of onions, some shallots, vegetable seeds and plants available too.

If you can’t make it to our Autumn event, we will offer any remaining stock afterwards. You can Join our email list for updates.

Growing Newsome Seed Swap & Huddersfield Potato Day – Saturday 5th March 2022

Get your growing year off to a great start with our bumper early Spring event…

Seed Swap and Potato Day

Saturday 5th March 2022
10am to 1pm

Venue: Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

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Huddersfield Potato Day

Choose from 20 different types of seed potato, including popular easy-to-grow varieties and some more unusual types. All seed potatoes are £2 per dozen (pick and mix) or 20p each. Our 2020 varieties are:

1st Earlies:
Casablanca (organic), Epicure, Maris Bard (organic), Red Duke of York, Rocket, Vitabella (organic).

2nd Earlies:
Charlotte, Kestrel, Maris Peer (organic), Nicola (organic), Ratte, Sarpo Una (organic).

Mains:
Ambo (organic), Blue Annelise (organic), Cara (organic), Desiree, Orla (organic), Pink Gypsy (organic), Sarpo Mira (organic), Pink Fir Apple.

More info about our varieties:
Potato picker list 2022 (PDF)
Popular potato picks 2022

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Seed Swap

Seeds galore – We’ll also have vegetable and salad seeds, lots of onion sets and shallots on offer. You can either swap, or pick up some seeds in exchange for a small donation. Try our seed starter packs – ideal for growing in small spaces.

Activities –  Enjoy seed planting and crafts for kids with our Growing Newsome volunteers.

Local food on sale – Jam and other preserves made from fruit and veg grown in Newsome..

Huddersfield Raw Honey – local honey and beekeeping info from Ryad Alsous.

Plant protection materials – protect your homegrown crops.

Books – Book stall with all sorts of books.

Refreshments – Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Help with growing – Please ask for advice.

Local information – Come and promote your group or activity.

Plant pot & jam jar amnesty – Bring along your spare small plant pots or small jam jars (we can only use 1Ib jam jars or smaller, which will fit a standard 63mm screw top lid).

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Join us for lunch

served 12 noon to 1pm 

Enjoy a warming, two-course cooked lunch, featuring some local ingredients.

Free admission. All welcome. And please tell all your friends!

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Want to help?

Volunteer
We’re looking for volunteers to help out with our events and activities. Contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com to find out more, or ask on the day.

Print our poster
Help us to promote the event:
Huddersfield Potato Day 2022 (PDF)

Stalls

If your local group or organisation are interested in having a stall at one of our events, please get in touch: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Organised by Growing Newsome

With our special thanks to the
West Yorkshire Organic Group
for supporting our Potato Day.

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Garlic bulbs available in 2021

Our Autumn planting vegetables this year will include six different varieties of garlic. Pick up your garlic from our Autumn Gathering event on Saturday 16th October from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ.

Garlic needs a month or more in the ground at a temperature of 10C or less, and Autumn planting gives you the best chance for this. So you can get planting yours soon – all you need to do is decide what sort to grow.

To help you choose, here are some notes…

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Caulk Wight

• Purple-striped bulbs which resist splitting
• Hardneck variety from Eastern Europe
• Grows well in the UK climate
• Good flavour and easy to peel
• Perfect for autumn planting
• Harvest as early as June

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Germidour (organic)

• Fast growing French variety with high yields
• A rich purple head with ivory clove skins – very attractive non-flowering variety
• Can be strung or plaited
• Winner of RHS Award of Gardening Merit
• Plant October or November for harvest in June
• Lift as soon as mature. Should keep until December following harvesting

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Mersley Wight

• Has the best keeping quality (up to 10 months)
• Softneck variety well suited to UK growing
• Classic silverskin garlic
• Larger cloves and very vigorous
• Plant in late winter or ideally early spring
• Harvest in late July or early August

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Picardy Wight

• Originally from the fields of Picardy, growing around the battllefields of the Somme
• Copes really well with cooler and wetter conditions – will grow where other varieties have struggled
• Strong flavoured bulbs which store well
• Plant from October to March
• Harvest July to August

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Rhapsody Wight

• The first true garlic of the season
• Large purple bulbs with wide leafy growth
• Fresh flavour – perfect for salads
• Softneck variety from France
• Plant: October to January
• Harvest: June

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Thermidrome (organic)

• A traditional variety producing large heads and cloves
• Very hardy so ideal even in harsh conditions
• White head with a hint of pink, and white clove skins
• Plant in October or November for harvest in July
• A non-flowering variety which can be strung or plaited
• Should keep until the December following harvesting

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You can pick up your garlic bulbs from our Autumn Gathering event on Saturday 16th October from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall. We ask for £2 per bulb to cover our costs. This is ideal if you have a small garden or plot, as you don’t need to buy a whole pack. It’s also great if you fancy planting more than one variety and you just want one bulb of each – or if you want lots, but want to save some pennies (and avoid paying for postage). We’ll have some onions, vegetable seeds and plants too.

If you can’t make it to our Autumn event, we will offer any remaining stock afterwards. You can Join our email list for updates.

Autumn Pop up Stall, 24th October 2020

If you’d like to get your autumn-planting garlic and onions from us this year, or pick up some locally grown jam and other things to enjoy, you van visit our Pop up Growing Newsome stall: Saturday 24th October from 10am to around 12 noon Outside St John’s Church, off Jackroyd Lane, in Newsome village Look out for our pop up stall on the path through the church grounds.

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How you can visit safely and keep others safe

Please arrive via the Lych gate (the covered gateway arch) at Newsome crossroads, at the corner of Jackroyd Lane and Newsome Road South.

If other people are already at the stall, please follow the distancing guidelines and wait for a safe space. We’re hoping to dodge the rain showers, but you might want to bring a brolley or shelter in the Lych gate if you need to wait a few minutes. 

Please sanitise your hands when you get to the stall (we’re providing some hand sanitiser). We also recommend doing this before you leave.

If you’d like to avoid handling cash, we will be accepting contactless card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and payments from other contactless smartphones and watches (but you can still pay with cash if you’d like).

In case the government guidelines for Kirklees change in the next few days, please be reassured that we have consent from West Yorkshire Police to hold our outdoor stall, and we’re keeping in touch with our ward councillors. 

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Choose your garlic

If you’re coming along to buy some garlic bulbs, you can find information about the varieties that we have available on our web site

Garlic bulbs available in 2020

We’ll also have some onion sets, seeds and plants available.

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How you can help

We know it’s short notice for our stall. We hope you can make it on Saturday – and if you can help to let other people In the local area know it’s happening, we really appreciate it. You might also want to offer to pick something up for others who have been shielding. If you’d like to buy something but can’t get there, please let us know and between us we’ll do our best to help.

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Supported by our councillors

Our new contactless payments facility is funded by the Newsome councillors, from their community response Ward Project Budgets. This is extra funding available from Kirklees Council to help all kinds of organisations who are supporting people in our local places during Covid-19.

We’d like to say thank you to our councillors, and especially to Cllr Andrew Cooper for his continuing encouragement and personal support.

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Thank you

We also wanted to say thank you to everyone who has shared some fruit or vegetables for our autumn preserves, and thank you to everyone who has helped us to organise the stall.

If you have any questions about the stall, you can contact us at: GrowingNewsome@gmail.com

Photo by Steve F, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Garlic bulbs available in 2020

Our Autumn planting vegetables this year will include five different varieties of garlic. Pick up your garlic from our Pop up Growing Newsome stall on Saturday 24th October from 10am to around 12 noon outside St John’s Church in Newsome village.

Garlic needs a month or more in the ground at a temperature of 10C or less, and Autumn planting gives you the best chance for this. So you can get planting yours soon – all you need to do is decide what sort to grow.

To help you choose, here are some notes…

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Solent Wight Extra Early

• For early crops of tasty garlic
• Hardneck variety originally from China, which has been developed in France
• White skinned with crisp brilliant white flesh
• Large, high quality bulbs
• Plant in autumn or spring
• Excellent keeping qualities

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Caulk Wight

• Purple-striped bulbs which resist splitting
• Hardneck variety from Eastern Europe
• Grows well in the UK climate
• Good flavour and easy to peel
• Perfect for autumn planting
• Harvest as early as June

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Iberian Wight

• Good all-round garlic
• Softneck variety from Cordoba in Spain
• Large, flat bulbs
• White skins, can be flecked with purple
• Plant October to December
• Stores well into winter

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Carcassone Wight

• Especially fragrant, with good flavour
• Hardneck variety from the South of France
• Pink cloves and good skin cover
• Performs well in the UK
• Plant in autumn or spring
• Harvest in July

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Mersley Wight

• Has the best keeping quality
• Softneck variety originally from France
• Classic silverskin garlic
• Larger cloves and very vigorous
• Plant in late winter or spring
• Harvest in late July

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You can pick up your garlic bulbs from our Pop up Growing Newsome stall on Saturday 24th October from 10am to around 12 noon outside St John’s Church in Newsome village. We ask for £2 per bulb to cover our costs. This is ideal if you have a small garden or plot, as you don’t need to buy a whole pack. It’s also great if you fancy planting more than one variety and you just want one bulb of each – or if you want lots, but want to save some pennies (and avoid paying for postage). We’ll have some onions, vegetable seeds and plants too.

If you can’t make it to our Autumn pop up stall, we will offer any remaining stock afterwards. You can Join our email list for updates.

Growing Newsome Plant Drop, June 2020

Although we aren’t able to get together for our usual Big Plant Swap this year, we are still here for each other. And we still want to help people grow their own food. So with a little help from our friends, we have turned our annual plant swap into a Plant Drop.

We’ve decided that if our growers can’t come to us, we’ll bring some plants to your doorstep. We hope you will join in. Please let us know what plants you’d like and we’ll do our best to get them to you.

 

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See our plant list

We have over 90 different varieties of edible plants, including:

Cabbages, Broccoli and Kale

Chard, Sorrel and Mustard

Tomatoes and Peppers

Courgettes, Pumpkins and Squash

Herbs for your windowsill

and lots more…

 

Here’s a list of the plants that we have for you:

Plants available for our Plant Drop

 

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Request a doorstep plant drop

Please let us know if you’d like some plants delivering to your doorstep. Your plants will be brought by one of the other growers from our network who have kindly volunteered to help. We’ll do this in a safe way.

 

Growing Newsome Plant Drop – request some plants

If we get a lot of requests at the same time, we may pause our order form for a while to give us chance to pack the deliveries that we already have. We can deliver anywhere in the Newsome ward and will also aim to deliver to other places in Huddersfield, 

 

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Ways to say thank you for your plants

Rebecca has shared this photo of veg happily growing in her garden during lockdown, including some Growing Newsome potatoes

In the usual spirit of our Plant Swap, you are welcome to share something with us in exchange for your plants, if you can. We’d love to receive a note, card or email from you saying why growing your own food matters to you, especially right now. You might like to send us a photo of something that you’re growing via email: GrowingNewsome@gmail.com or via twitter: @GrowingNewsome

Making a donation

If you’d like to make a financial donation for your plants, we’ll let you know how to do this safely. Or come along to a future Growing Newsome event and put something in one of our donation boxes.

 

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Supported by our volunteers

We want to say a huge thank you to all the members of the Growing Newsome network who have kindly volunteered to help with the deliveries and preparations.

Many of our elves are currently unable to do the things they love to do to help others, because they are self-isolating or shielding. It’s hard for all of us. So our Plant Drop would not be possible without the kind hearts of our community. Thank you.

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Supported by our councillors

Our Plant Drop is funded by the Newsome councillors, from their community response Ward Project Budgets. This is extra funding available from Kirklees Council to help all kinds of organisations who are supporting people in our local places during Covid-19.

We’d like to say thank you to our councillors, and especially to Cllr Andrew Cooper for his encouragement and personal support.

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Growing Newsome Seed Swap & Huddersfield Potato Day – Saturday 29th February 2020

Get your growing year off to a great start with our bumper early Spring event…

Seed Swap and Potato Day

Saturday 29th February 2020
10am to 1pm

Newsome Scout Hall
Newsome Road South
Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

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Huddersfield Potato Day

Choose from 30 different types of seed potato, including popular easy-to-grow varieties and some more unusual types. All seed potatoes are £2 per dozen (pick and mix) or 20p each. Our 2020 varieties are:

1st Earlies:
Casablanca (organic), Colleen (organic), Lady Christl, Maris Bard (organic), Red Duke of York, Rocket, Sharpe’s Express, Winston

2nd Earlies:
Apache, British Queen, Charlotte (organic), Jazzy, Kestrel, Maris Peer (organic), Sarpo Una (organic).

Mains:
Ambo (organic), Belle de Fontenay, Cara (organic), Carolous (organic), Desiree, Highland Burgundy Red, International Kidney, Mary’s Rose (organic), Orla (organic), Pink Gypsy (organic), Pink Fir Apple, Red Emmalie, Salad Blue (organic), Sarpo Kifli, Sarpo Mira (organic), Vales Sovereign.

More info about the varieties:

Potato picker 2020 (PDF)

Our top 5 potato picks

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Seed Swap

Seeds galore – We’ll also have vegetable and salad seeds, sprouted garlic, onion sets and shallots on offer. You can either swap, or pick up some seeds in exchange for a small donation. Try our seed starter packs – ideal for growing in small spaces.

Activities –  Enjoy seed planting and crafts for kids with our Growing Newsome volunteers.

Learn about Beekeeping – Find out about beekeeping, get advice and see the demonstration hive from the Huddersfield and District Bee Keeping Association. 

Enjoy the outdoors – Take part in the herb smell challenge and “guess the seed” activities with Growing Works and find out about their upcoming courses and events which are all about nurturing healthy lives outdoors.

Local food on sale – Jam and other preserves made from fruit and veg grown in Newsome, plus locally produced honey from the Huddersfield Bee Keepers.

Books – Book stall with all sorts of books.

Refreshments – Tea, coffee and home made cakes available all day.

Help with growing – Please ask for advice.

Plant pot & jam jar amnesty – Bring along your spare small plant pots or small jam jars (we can only use 1Ib jam jars or smaller, which will fit a standard 63mm screw top lid).

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Join us for lunch

served 12 noon to 1pm 

Enjoy a warming cooked lunch, featuring some local ingredients.

Free admission. All welcome. And please tell all your friends!

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Organised by Growing Newsome

Our special thanks to the
West Yorkshire Organic Group
for supporting our Potato Day.

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Want to help?

We’re looking for volunteers to help out with our events and activities. Contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com to find out more, or ask on the day.

Print our poster and help to promote the event:
Huddersfield Potato Day 2020 (PDF)

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