Welcome to SidcupLife.co.uk, a brand new website which we hope will become a necessary first-stop for for those who live, work or are just visiting our town. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date resource showcasing the enormous variety of shops and businesses that Sidcup has to offer.

High resolution colour photographs of insects common to the vegetable garden have been grouped into clusters to aid in identification. Click on the insect group to go to a higher magnification view of the photo. When you find the insect you wish to identify, click on its photo and you will receive a page of detailed information that describes the insect and how it damages plants. At the bottom of the detail page, you may search the vegIPM database for cultural, biological and chemical controls for the pest.

Need help identifying your weeds, this site gives you a visual aid in doing so.

Allotment Sites in Bexley

Vegetable Gardening and Allotment (UK Community Gardens dedicated to vegetable growing) sites on the Web. Sites cover all aspects of vegetable growing, organic produce, compost making. Initially composed of UK sites but includes global links.

A very good website for all you allotment questions and answer needs. The site is forum based and covers a wide variety of topics from produce information, grow and show, allotment stuff and every day general stuff. 

Bexley Federation of Allotment & Leisure Gardeners, has represented allotment and leisure gardeners for over 60 years, acting also as an advisor to Bexley Council. Their aim is to promote the benefit of allotment gardening for all young and old.

London Allotments Network is run by an informal team of plotholders and society officers from around Greater London. If you are a Plotholder, an allotment society or an allotment provider any where in Greater London this is your web site. You can advertise your events here, publish your news to a wider audience, or air your views on allotment related subjects.

The Allotments Regeneration Initiative (ARI) is a partnership between the National Allotment Gardens Trust and the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG), funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and supported by the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners (NSALG), the Institute of Leisure Amenity Management (ILAM) and the Department for Communities and Local Government. To date £800,000 of funding has been made available to promote allotments regeneration. 

A collection of British and International recipes and a whole lot more. There’s a good section on Growing Herbs and Vegetables also.

Totally independent site giving advice and recommending products following their own research. There’s a good section on month by month fruit and veg diary.

If you wish to add to the list of links, send your request to hasas@btinternet.com.