The Bluebell Allotments are owned and managed by Norwich City Council.  The Association simply consists of members who have an interest in horticulture or allotment gardening.

What is the Association's policy on the eradication of rats, foxes and cats, the discouragement of keeping chickens, and the banning of dogs on the Bluebell Allotment Site?

busy harvesting broad beans beetroot carrots kale and the last few strawberries

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planting out my cabbage plants

Hi all
  well today i have been mending a spade handle and generally having a tidy up , things have  started to move on and at last i have a few potatoes peeping through the baulks . set a few runners to replace the ones the frost wiped out last week

i am and its a lonely trip

hi today i been mending my fence and tidying the front of the plot up even found the original kerd complete with number ,also set some sweetcorn in pots and a few more runners just in case we get a late frost,had a hoe round the redbeet as they just big enough to s beans are looking good and Broad  beans are growing well after the disaster of the autumm sown ones.

Free woodchips beside allotment 189A with easy car access. Help yourselves

Me too scarecrow I have waited and waited for March and suddenly it has vanished.  I have the next week off so
will catch up on planting.  Fingers crossed for nice weather 

i love this time of the year
a time when we alter the clocks and get the extra time in the evening, and constantly searching the ground for things to pop there heads through the soil a magic time .

hi today i have been

putting another 2 rows of sharps express early potatoes in to join the 2 rows of duke of york  ones i put in during the week . next i set a couple of trays of low beans to try and get a early start and hope they escape a frost attack ,hoed the onion bed ,broad bean patch then home to listen to the city play leeds on the radio

Gues the title says it all ,myself i am going to try to be more organise and spread sowing and planting to try and ensure a more regular supply of produce. How about you or have you got the job sussed,

sitting on computer trying to find a way to make the font bigger when i try to post in this forum

I'm sure our container was the one right in the middle.  I had a grand tour of the container with the Trading Hut Team.  I am sure if will provide hours of entertainment.  It was lovely in the hut with the stove going.  The rain hammering down outside.  I will need to remember to take a kettle and mugs down for a brew!

Our container is on its way!

There's foxes round my back garden too (Lakenham, backs onto railway lines, then rivers and open countryside). I bought a flatpack house from a company called Hen House World, plus a run. The house has been OK; it needed two extra bolts to secure a sliding tray to clean it out and few cabin hooks putting in to let you hold doors open. The run was far too small though and was supposed to be bolted onto the house, but was at the wrong height without a floor. Then I saw the house about twenty quid cheaper from a company called something similar, based out Hereford way.   

I extended the run using 19*32mm treated battening to make frames of weld mesh, then screwed hem together and re-inforced them with some planks that fell off the Sinegorsk. Hens immediately started laying better for having more space. This weekend I'm going to put in floors for the two bits of the run; one a weld mesh in a frame and the other slats 3" apart.

Keeping hens on an allotment is only really viable if you libe nearby. If you were putting hens on an allotment, I'd have weld mesh buried a good 2', or else coming a good 2' out from the edge of your run. Weld mesh is the more expensive square stuff; it keeps foxes out, unlike hex wire that just keeps chickens in. I'd go about 3-4' high and put a roof on. My run's about 4'*6' wide and long by 3' high. When I'm about I give them free range of most of the garden, with anything I don't want digging up fenced off with hex wire.

Feed costs about £7 a month; I'm getting 3 or 4 eggs with big golden yolks a day.      

Hi Hicksy I wish I had chickens we are allowed to keep them on the allotment but we are trying to work out how to build chicken fort knox to keep Mr Foxy and his human cohorts from stealing them

I've been watching the rain and thinking "Great". I'm going to get cracking on the digging and clearing the last few brambles to spud it up in the spring.Space at the front; need to call Alan and get a delivery. 

First I've got to get my lean to built in the back garden; clear some space to finally transplant

my hazel and dogwood saplings. Hope the chickens haven't killed them with all their scratching.