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August 4, 2024

BALGA Open Day 2024

We are excited to invite you to our Open Day 2024 in celebration of National Allotments Week.

Event Details

Date: Saturday, 17th August 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Tapps Garden Centre, Wallington Road (opposite the Clothall Road allotment site)

Come and join BALGA, your local community-run allotment and leisure gardeners’ Association. Benefits include:
🍈 Access to discounted prices at our members’ shop
🫑 An annual flower and vegetable show with the Baldock Horticultural Society
🍐 A discounted seed scheme via Kings Seeds and the National Allotment
Association
🥬 A bi-monthly newsletter to keep you up-to-date
Come and speak with us to find out about getting an allotment or becoming an Associate Member. Learn about Seed Saving.

Refreshments are available at Tapps Garden Centre.

August 5, 2021

BALGA Open Day 2021

Saturday 14^th August 2021

2pm – 4pm

Tapps Garden Centre, Wallington Road

Come along to meet the BALGA committee and get advice about growing your fruit and veg.

The new Kings Seeds’ catalogues will also be available for collection for members only. Taking advantage of buying seeds in the Kings Seeds’ catalogue is a great way to save money.

Neem oil will be available to buy for members only. This is an organic method to protect your crops from the allium leaf miner.

Refreshments are available at Tapps Garden Centre

September 13, 2019March 31, 2020

BALGA Open Day 2019

Thank you to everyone who came to our Open Day at Tapps Garden Centre on 17 August. It was good to see so many members coming along again.

A good number of seed catalogues were handed out to members. Taking advantage of buying seeds in the Kings Seeds’ catalogue is a great way for members to save money on their seed purchases for next year. If you haven’t got your catalogue yet, you can pick one up every Sunday morning during September and October at the members’ shop in Football Close.
Click here for more information on national seed scheme from King Seeds.

We also had a couple of people seeking plots and their names have been added to the waiting list. We had a number of displays showing our work this year and a possible expansion on North Road allotment site. With the increasing demand for allotments and waiting list, we will be exploring this possible expansion.

Once again, thank you to everyone that came to our Open Day. If you have any ideas for next year, please email publicity@balga-online.co.uk

May 14, 2019March 31, 2020

Allotments Open Day 2019

Thank you to everyone that came along to our Open Day on Saturday. Despite the initial downpour just before we were about to open, we had a successful day with two new tenancies agreed at Clothall Road and several visitors wanting to look around both sites.

We’ve had a few enquiries about getting an allotment over the last week and we are pleased to announce that we are now fully tenanted at our North Road site and have a waiting list in operation on that site.

If you’ve been thinking about getting an allotment, we still have 1 full plot and 2 half plots at Clothall Road (14/05/19).

Now that our sites are almost full we have imposed a notional boundary of approx. a 5 mile radius around Baldock for accepting new allotment tenants so that we can give priority to Baldock residents.
Click here for more information about getting an allotment.