News and Events
​RHS Fruit, Vegetable and Herb Expert Group Visit
Saturday 27th June 2026
10am - 3pm​
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The RHS visitors are:
1. Gerry Edwards - Chair of the RHS Fruit, Vegetable, and Herb Expert Group, The Fruit Group, The Orchard Group, Fruit Judge, and author. A passionate believer in organic fruit growing.
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2. Jim Arbury - a renowned fruit expert and instructor to RHS Students, staff, and visitors. When not working or volunteering, he can be found on one of his allotments.
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3. Alex Valsacchi - a Viticulture specialist who works at the Albury Vineyard in Surrey. She has a wide range of expertise and is a regular on allotment visits.
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4. Richard White - a career with both the RHS and Tozer Seeds, a specialist in vegetable gardening and a keen allotment grower.
5. Kelly-Jane Leach - an educational horticulturalist, enthusiast about all things allotment, and loves both growing unusual varieties and sharing the joy of gardening.
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6. The Lady Lenzie - a horticulturalist with a distinguished collection of curious, rare and heritage plants and seeds gathered from around the world. Her practice is guided by a reverence for old and traditional growing methods. Having tended private, community, and charitable kitchen gardens, she is especially drawn to plants of history, character, and significance.
Schedule
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10 am - Arrival
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10.30 - 12.30 pm - Site Tours, including specific plots
(you know who you are!)
12.30 - 1pm - Focus on new / novice plot holders
(you know who you are too!)
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1 - 2 pm - Lunch (for RHS Visitors only) and "networking", whatever that is; fish, hair, butterflies, stuff like that are unlikely to be involved...
Followed by.......
ALL PLOT HOLDERS WELCOME AT
"GARDENERS' QUESTION TIME" EVENT
2 - 3 PM
BRING YOUR ALLOTMENT QUESTIONS FOR THE RHS EXPERTS TO ANSWER​
Ask them about pruning your fruit trees and bushes, coping with climate change, biodiversity, peat-free growing, wildlife-friendly pest control, your 3 decade-long battle with wild horseradish, what to feed asparagus....whatever you want to find out, check out, or suss out, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!
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Oh, and please bring cake so we can feed you all tea and cake afterwards....you're all stars, thank you!
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​Now back to the usual boring stuff...
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ALLOTMENT SHOP
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OPEN SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS BETWEEN
11AM & 1 PM
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Click HERE to go to Shop page
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​​GCAA Committee Meeting: next meeting TBC
Committee page HERE
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GCAA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SUNDAY 19TH JULY
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WE REALLY, REALLY NEED SOME NEW COMMITTEE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS -
IF YOU WANT TO KEEP OUR ALLOTMENTS GOING IN THE FUTURE, YOU NEED TO ATTEND!
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WATCH OUT FOR THE EMAILS!
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Minutes of previous meetings HERE
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NEXT CAFÉ
SUNDAY 12th JULY 12.30 - 2PM​
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Café Page HERE
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​To see 2025's Annual Show pictures, including what you need to beat at this year's Show, click HERE
To see 2025's Award Winners, click HERE
Where we are
Our location: 47 1/2 Winton Avenue, London, N11 2AR
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The site is not open to the public except on our Annual Show Day on the first Sunday of September, which we hold with the assistance of the National Garden Scheme.
About us
At almost 7 acres, Golf Course Allotments is one of the largest and oldest of Haringey Council's 27 allotment sites (see site map below). We have over 240 plots (mostly half-plots of about 125 square metres each) tended by a culturally diverse community of tenants growing a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and flowers.
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Haringey Council owns the land on which our site exists, so all plot holders are tenants who pay a yearly rent (including water rates) to Haringey, from whom we receive a small annual grant towards site maintenance. As an allotment association we raise necessary funds for maintenance, essential repairs and improvements - the Community Hut, the Allotment Shop, the composting toilet, this website, and the cost of our annual Public Liability Insurance policy, among other things - through events such as the monthly Cafés for our plot holders and their families, and the Annual Show in September. We also ask all plot holders to join the Golf Course Allotments Association (GCAA) and pay a small extra subscription of £5.00 annually towards these amenities.
To find out more about what your GCAA does, click HERE
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If you would like to find out more about how you can help, click HERE
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