The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree "Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." Larry Wilde (1928-2023) Choosing a Christmas tree, for many people, signals the start of the festive season. Pagans, then Romans and eventually...
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Dobies 2024 Catalogue Discounts
Members of Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society are entitled to a discount of 50% off packet seeds and 15% off non-seed live products (potatoes, garlic, shallots, onions, plants, bulbs and fruit) from the 2024 Dobies catalogue. To receive discounts, member will...
Wisley Visit 2024
A popular annual event for members is a visit to Wisley.This trip normally free for paid up Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society members. Cost of entry for non members is currently £18.50 for adults and £8.25 for children so it's worth joining the society, which...
Trading Hut Sale
Church Crookham & Fleet Garden Society 2023 End of Season Sale at the Trading Hut : up to 60% off Natural Organic Manure £4.40 80 litre bags Ideal for mulching Miracle Grow 1.2 kg - was £29.20 now reduced to £25.50 All-purpose soluble plant food. Chempac 2...
Summer Show 2023
Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society holds its Summer show on Saturday 19th August 2023. A schedule of the classes and full details of the event are available in the show guide (pdf). Click on illustration to view or download. New members and show visitors very...
Latest Hints & Tips
October Hints and Tips
Here we are, at the beginning of Autumn, the roar of leaf blowers filling the air! I do hope those leaves will be composted to make leaf mould! Most of the harvesting is done: potatoes lifted and stored cool and dark in hessian sacks, apples stored...
Hints and Tips for September
Autumn is early here this year. Leaves dropping, berries ripening and apples ready to pick in August. Although the apple crop is heavy this year, potatoes, beans and sweetcorn have not flourished for me in dry, hot conditions. There are still the asters,...
Hints and Tips for July – August 2022
Liz Kirton writes: Gardening is a hobby that can bring great joy! In June I have seen a wonderful display of irises, rambling roses and poppies – beautiful! BUT I have been much saddened by disease in the onion bed and box moth destroying my 20 year old box hedges....
June gardening Tips
There are jobs that must be done in hope of kind weather continuing… Here are some suggestions: Ornamental garden Gently remove spent flowers from Camellia and rhododendrons to make room for the leaf buds emerging behind. You can also trim back overgrown shoots to...
Welcome to Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society
A vibrant garden society active in Fleet and Church Crookham, Hampshire. We hold several annual events and shows and run a comprehensively stocked stores hut with discounts for members.
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