Bushy Park Allotment Association Newsletter is now added to here.

Bobby the cat has been captured and is now in safe and well.

Do not throw away your pumpkin flesh while carving your pumpkin lantern! Try baking this delicious pumpkin pie for the Halloween day treat.

BPAA Annual General Meeting 28.9.2024 Minutes and the Committee Meeting Minutes from the 9 June 2024, 28 July 2024 and 29 September 2024 Meetings now have been added to the Archives page.

Here are some photos from the AGM Saturday the 28.September 2024

BPAA AGM Agenda and the Committee report 2023-2024 can be found in the Archives page and via these links: BPAA Report 2023-2024 and BPAA AGM 2024 Agenda.

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Saturday 28. September 2024 at 11 am in the Allotment communal area. Welcome!

If you have spare produce we have a means to have it collected for charitable distribution.

Paul, who has been working the raised beds in the communal area this year, has volunteered to take any spare produce available on Mondays to the Hampton Hill Food Bank (outside Noble Green) as his wife Marilyn volunteers at the food bank on Tuesdays.

Please put any spare produce on the large wooden table under the persimmon tree on the edge of the shop car park by 3:00 PM on Monday.  Paul will ensure it gets to the food bank.

A tenant has recently contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite at the allotment. Please, be alerted. Ticks inhabit long vegetation and bares legs and feet when working in grass areas should be avoided. Check for ticks and follow the NHS advice if you find one on your skin, you may not notice them attaching!

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be spread to humans by infected ticks. It’s usually easier to treat if it’s diagnosed early.

Symptoms of Lyme disease A circular or oval shape rash around a tick bite can be an early symptom of Lyme disease in some people. The rash can appear up to 3 months after being bitten by an infected tick, but usually appears within 1 to 4 weeks. It can last for several week. The rash can have a darker or lighter area in the centre and might gradually spread. It’s not usually hot or itchy. The rash may be flat, or slightly raised, and look pink, red, or purple when it appears on white skin. It can be harder to see the rash on brown and black skin and it may look like a bruise. Some people also get flu-like symptoms a few days or weeks after they were bitten by an infected tick, such as:

• a high temperature, or feeling hot and shivery
• headache
• muscle and joint pain
• tiredness and loss of energy

This is Bobby the cat with a scruffy tail. He has been wandering around in the Bushy park allotments lately, a very shy cat he is. He is microshipped. We have found Bobby’s owner Karen – Bobby has been on a run from home the end of July on. We try to catch him and return to the owner Karen. Please, liaise with myself or Anne Grant here if Bobby’s favourite hiding places are near your plot. Thank you for your help. email: rlehtova@gmail.com.

It is time to harvest courgettes. They seem to come up ready all at the same time. So we do need a lot of ideas how to prepare and use them.

This time, why don’t you try this lovely lemony gluten free courgette cake.