Growing Your Own on the PACE Allotment
Food production causes massive carbon emissions, particularly transporting food from distant lands. Growing-your-own and using seasonal vegetables reduces food miles and emissions, and is much healthier for you. At the PACE allotment we share tips on how to grow organic veg. We work together on the allotment – good exercise, excellent produce, stimulating exchange of ideas – all good for our physical and mental wellbeing. Join us on Sunday mornings, Shrublands Road, Mistley.
In 2026 we are taking over a second allotment – we need your help please – you get fresh veg.
What can you do?
Email us on manningtreepace@gmail.com and tell us you want to help.
Leave your mobile number if you want to join our WhatsApp Group where we confirm times and what we are planning to do.
Come down to the PACE allotment to help us.
Watch some of the Youtube clips which give advice on veg growing.
John Hall from PACE has made some helpful video guides to growing your own produce, and a couple of these can be launched from this page as a "taster". There are 13 videos in total which can be accessed on YouTube from the link below or search for Youtube PACE Manningtree .
1. Compost
2. Where to Grow
3. Alliums; Onions, Garlic, Shallots
4. Parsnips and Carrots
5. Dealing with Pests
6. Spinach, Chard and Beetroot
7. Beans and Peas
8. Weeding and Watering
9. Courgettes, Cucumbers and Squashes
10. Brassicas
11. Leeks, Florence Fennel and Swede
12. Harvest
13. Winter to Spring
