Buying guide
This is our guide to places to buy what you need for your allotment. If you need any specific advice, do ask fellow plotholders or any member of the committee.
Framfield Allotments Association earns commission from the web sites marked with a * below, but only if you access them via this page. Try to remember to do this whenever you order - it doesn't cost you anything and helps us a lot.
Allotment trading huts
Some of the local allotments sites have their own trading huts:
- Ascott: South Ealing, between 50 and 52 Ranleagh Road, Ealing W5 - Saturdays 2-4pm and Sundays 10-12 noon
- Pitshanger: Pitshanger Park, Perivale Gardens, Ealing W5 (opening hours not known)
To use any of these trading huts you have to be a member of the Ealing and Hanwell Allotment Society - £1.50 per annum (payable at the hut).
Garden centres
- Wyvale Garden Centre – Osterley (Windmill Lane), Syon Park (A315)
- Ducks Hill Garden Centre – Ruislip Common (Ducks Hill Road)
Other stores with garden sections
- B & Q * – Yeading (A312), North Acton (A40), Chiswick (A4/A406)
- B & Q Next Day * - a discount online-only version of B & Q
- Wilkinson * – West Ealing (Uxbridge Road)
- Homebase
* – Brentford (A4), Hayes (A312/Uxbridge Road), East Acton (A40)
Mail order seeds and plants
There are lots of companies out there! The following are just some that you could try:
- Thompson & Morgan * - 0844 248 5383
- Suttons Seeds * - 0844 922 2899
- Unwins Seeds & Plants * - 01480 443395
- Seeds of Italy - 020 8427 5020
- The Real Seeds Catalogue - 01239 821107
- The Organic Gardening Catalogue - 0845 130 1304
- Marshalls - 01480 443390
- Ken Muir - 01255 830181 - fruit specialist
- Buckingham Nurseries - 01280 822133
- Blackmoor Fruit Nursery - 01420 473576
- Herbal Haven - 07850 967690 - herb specialist, has a stall at the Ealing Festival
- Vegetable
Seeds.net -
get a 10% discount if you let them know you're with us
Mail order tools, equipment and books
Some of the suppliers above also sell tools and equipment. Here are some other options:
- * Evengreener * - 0845 658 5588 - water butts and compost bins
- * Ferndale Lodge * - 0844 314 0043 - garden equipment, sister company of Suttons Seeds
- Get Digging - 01263 837278 - a useful range of tools you won't find in B & Q
- My Allotment Plot - 01733 371082 - a good range of tools and advice on what types to buy
- D & V Fuels - 01978 844504 - a range of cheap recycled water butts.
- New Holland Publishers * - 020 7724 7773 - publish a variety of useful books about allotment gardening