Skip to content

A Place To Grow Your Own

Pontcanna Permanent Allotments, serving over two hundred Cardiff gardeners, traditional and organic

  • HOME
  • Articles
  • Lost/found etc.
  • Useful stuff
  • Trad Method
  • PPAA Committee
  • Contact

Shop

The PPAA Committee are sorry to say that the shop operation is – for the time being – suspended.

Whatever, there is an ongoing, online clearance sale of some very useful stock.

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
Like Loading...
- VIDEO OF THE MOMENT -
How to plant potatoes. From the land where they know all about it. However, liming is not recommended unless the soil is very acidic or soil pests are a real problem.
- LATEST ARTICLES -
  • Allotments problems across Cardiff – Council’s Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee’s meeting
  • Brief interruptions to site water supply
  • Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the site
  • Thanks
  • Minutes for PPAA Committee Meeting, 7th April 2026, at The Cricketers, Cathedral Road, Cardiff
- READERS SAID -
  1. Unknown's avatar
    Katrina and Tim on Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the siteApril 18, 2026

    We will be there on the 25th at 10.30

  2. A Place To Grow Your Own's avatar
    A Place To Grow Your Own on Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the siteApril 17, 2026

    Ah, got you. There are two kinds of fuchsia, native and burgundy elder, and St. John's wort, hypericum. They're quite…

  3. Unknown's avatar
    Anonymous on Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the siteApril 16, 2026

    I know the locations. I just don’t know which plants you’re talking about. I assume when I’m on site the…

  4. A Place To Grow Your Own's avatar
    A Place To Grow Your Own on Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the siteApril 16, 2026

    Hi Anon, Thanks for your comment. If you read the captions to the pictures, then I think that the locations…

  5. Unknown's avatar
    Anonymous on Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the siteApril 16, 2026

    So if I understood we need to find the ‘pollinator-supporting flowering shrubs’ and then tidy and manure about them. I’ll…

- USEFUL LINKS -

Easydigging.com

A website, which explains in detail how common garden tools, such as spades and forks are used effectively and easily for established growing techniques. It’s very informative.

Growseed

A seed company based in South Wales that offers a 10% reduction and free delivery to allotment holders at PPA. Simply add "PONTCANNA" as your discount code.

The National Allotment Society

The leading national organisation upholding the interests and rights of the allotment community across the UK.

FoodCycle, Riverside

If anyone has any surplus produce, then this charity would be very grateful for it. They would also welcome any volunteer help. They have a branch from 27 03 23 in Ely too. Member Susan Waring says "If anyone has any produce to offer for the free meal that we cook each Wednesday evening, then please message me [by email here] or leave in the greenhouse on plot 60."

Orchard Cardiff

The charity Orchard Cardiff will harvest surplus fruit. Contact Terry on apples@orchardcardiff.co.uk to arrange to meet them.

Advice on use of wood chip with No Dig Method

An article by No Till Growers.

Does use of wood chip release greenhouse gases?

Why do so many organic farms fail?

An article explaining why they fail, and what might be tried to avert this.

Wildlife protection - cats

Wildlife protection - dangers of flea treatments

There's a page picture of another good article here. (With acknowledgements to Private Eye)

Dog brushings in the Pontcanna Fields wild meadow. There are very many more such deposits.

How do developers acquire and free up allotments for building?

This law firm specialise in the legal routes, through which allotments can be developed.

RCG occupy plots 148, 150, and 152, in the northwest corner of the site. Clicking the image will take the reader to their FaceBook page.
- PAGE LIST -
  • (no title)
  • A quick guide to Pontcanna Permanent Allotments
  • About this website
  • Annual subscriptions for full PPAA membership
  • Applying for - or giving up - a plot
  • Lost/found etc.
  • Message PPAA Committee
  • Pontcanna Permanent Allotments Association (PPAA) Committee
  • PPAA Committee Minutes (links)
  • PPAA Committee Minutes Jul 2017-Oct 2022
  • Shop
  • Site maps - plot numbering scheme
  • Site notice boards
  • Subscribe to articles, newsletters, and comments follow by email
  • Terms, policies and documents etc.
  • The Riverside Community Garden - link to their FaceBook site
  • Traditional allotment gardening - so simple. So cheap. So productive.
  • Useful and helpful items
  • Wasps, rats, other pests, and beneficial visitors e.g. bees
  • When and how the Council may close our tenancy of our plot
  • Articles
- SITE LOCATION -
Click here or the map for Cardiff's larger interactive version of the sketch image above - you may need to switch between OS views to trigger the map to load.

Pontcanna Permanent Allotments, Western Avenue, Cardiff, CF5 2AY
- PPA FACEBOOK PAGE - STAND ALONE - NOT COMMITTEE ASSOCIATED -
  • Facebook
- SUBSCRIBE TO NOTICEBOARD & BLOG VIA EMAIL NOTIFICATION -

Anyone interested need simply enter their email address below to subscribe to this site's Notice Board & Blog, and so to receive notifications of new articles by email.

Please read about this website for general policy, including comment moderation.

Join 223 other subscribers
Blog at WordPress.com.
%d