Westborough Allotments Self Help Association- WASHA -

This is from the current WBDRA newsletter.

I have inserted below an extract from the latest Newsletter from John Harrison of www.Allotment.org.uk

The first item relates to contaminated Manure which any Allotmenteer could have got hold of especially if they use horse manure from stables or even Cow Manure from some of the local farms. The culprit is Aminopyralid.

The second item is the Commons Debate on Allotments which apparently took place on 22nd July. Can’t say I noticed anything in the papers about it or heard about it on the news. Let me know if any of you have any information – I’m e-mailing Anne Milton to see what she knows.

John Harrison writes

The ‘toxic manure’ problem I mentioned in my last
newsletter is worse than I thought, people who thought they
were just having bad luck have realised they have bad muck.
I posted some pictures of the effect, if you want to see
what it does.
http://www.allotment.org.uk/manure2.htm

Paul Wyman has started an online petition to the prime
minister to ban the use of Aminopyralid and I’d urge you
to sign up. It only takes a minute and we do need to do
something to protect ourselves. You can sign up here:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Aminopyralid/

The other thing I’d like to bring to your attention is the
upcoming commons debate on allotments. If we can persuade
our MPs to take the shortage of allotments seriously and
provide more plots, then we’ll all benefit.
They won’t be interested unless they think there are votes
to be had. Please take a moment to read this:
http://www.allotment.org.uk/vote.htm