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Dear Alex, I am so sorry to hear of your mothers death. She will be missed. I hope that you will continue to keep the Norwich Forum going, but will understand if this not possible. It will be a shame if this forum will have to close, though not a lot of people post messages on here now, not that I have seen recently. My thoughts are with you and the family.

Gardening jobs for March

Its the busy month sowing nearly everything for the glasshouse and seed beds for outside Broad beans and shallots Can sow early peas like Meteor sow onion seed in March /April to give good supplies for the home less likely to bolt opposed to sets

If you covered your Rhubarb in February it will take about three weeks for your harvest with a layer of straw then a plastic bin over the top to exclude the light, yes some varieties respond better to this Timperley early and Champagne giving you nice pink shoots to harvest

Hellebores are a lovely start to the year but if the leaves are showing signs of black distorted leaves this is called black death sadly a virus comming from an early attack of aphid there is no cure all you can do is destroy the plants affected. this is on the increase for the last two years and Brexit wont help, as this stems from Europe ,

Plant summer flower bulbs Gladiolus, Dahlias and lilies for coulour over a long period Begonias ideal for the hanging basket Its trendy to stick to one colour salmon and red are the hard fast rule

Window cill garderning sow rocket, mustard and cress ideal to top up your salads also as a micro herb to garnish the main meal with extra nutrients

Prune roses now cuts should be on a diagonal away from yje bud cut out poor growth and saw away very old stems with the exception of climbers and newly planted these to be left alone

Clematis cut basck time Group 2 and 3 the big flower typesthat appear in mid summer these only need a light prune the ones flower in the late summer and autumn these will need a hard prune if they flower before June dont prune

Top dress fruit trees with a slow growing fertilizer now fish bone and blood or a seaweed are perfect

If you are glasshouse growing chillies Aubergines Tomatoes are a must but now carrots beetrootor turnips can be sown for somethig different Peas Broad beans dwarf types ideal for pot growing Pot up some hanging baskets with cherry tomatoes for a good early crop and early variety od potatoes in plastic conpost bags Charlotte variety are wexcellant although this is really a second eary Rocket and Arran Piot are also ideal and will give you even an earlier crop

Many plants in garden centres although having the label bee freindly are sprayed, have been sprayed with neonicontincids so they are not bee freindly please challenge them about this as its a practice that still conytinues

Roundup weedkiller the Glyphosate material is Ok but its the wetting agents and other chemicals that cause the problem, this is supposed to break down on soil contact this has been found in the garden pond water, killing all amphibians common frog numbers are being defastated by this contamination

Mike Ellard

There is a Christmas Fayre at St Matthews this Saturday.

See attached for more details.

With Norfolk County Council and Norwich City Council declaring a Climate Emergency, and several other town councils across Norfolk considering the same, should Christmas lights that are viewable by the public be licensed and climate/carbon taxes levied upon them?

For over 40 years now I have known about greenhouse gases, airborne carbon particulate pollution and the climate change: it was taught to me in school during the mid 1970s

Each year we see the net energy consumption of the individual rise, not lower to the point where we are as individuals are annually consuming three to four times more energy than we did in the 80s and 70s.

Every year we see more audacious displays of festive season lighting displays that seem to begin earlier each year, not only in public spaces, shops, and commercial premises, but also homes. The energy these lights consume must be produced somewhere and it will have a carbon foot print and polluting consequences.

Therefore should not all displays of festive lights be licensed and taxed including the private individual with a display of lights in the front garden or draped upon their house, after-all we pay a pollution tax through the VED levied upon our cars

These levies should then be distributed 50% to the local authority, 40% to the regional authority and 10% to central gov’t, thus providing the required resources to police local air pollution policies. 

Gareth Lewis (in Thorpe Hamlet)

I’m new to North Norfolk and one of my interests is social history. Are there any groups or like-minded people in the Holt area?

Jobs for November

Nothing to do in Winter, Well

The veg garden all root crops except parsnips as these improve with frost to start the sugar process but the rest needs lifting and storing

Check produce in store especially potatoes remove anything going off, Onions can be realy tricky as storage areas are not cold and you can find onions starting growing again.

Start clearing your compost heaps to put on the garden this makes way for all the summer debris from your crops that have come to an end clean and tie up canes and stakes which have been used through the season, How about collecting fallen leaves and putting them into a black plastic bag to rot down makes a good additive to your compost as a growing medium.

Remove the lower leaves on sprouts aphids have been a real problem on sprouts this year and hard to control as they get into the sprout for protection

Dig all vacant ground try to cover ground with membrane or green mulch to dig in a new trend is co to sow green mulch under your beans to mature when you start cutting the foilage away on the beans, so the green mulch is already established.

Still hankering on the sowing, Broad Beans and peas a hardy type like Douce Provaence or Meteor are still good contenders outside. Garlic. Onions can be sown or grown as plant sets. Sow winter lettuce winter gem and winter density

Fruit trees put up grease bands and dont forget the tree stake as well its not much point just doing the tree as they can bypass the tree by climbing up the stake.

All soft fruit . Bush fruit can be planted now from containers or bare root plants which is the more economic way of buying Why not try blueberries in large pots with ericaceous compost they are around when all other berries have finished give them a go, as they are mostly imported, flown into the country in little plastic boxes.

Complete all spring bulb planting this month.

Hard wood cuttings can be taken now pencil length and pencil thick make a clean cut imediately below a bud and a sloping cut at the top plunge half the length in compost or trench in open ground , Vines, Cornus, Willow, Buddleia and fig will root by the Spring.

Cut back Herbaceous plants also reduce growth on roses to stop soil rock

Check over mowers and tools so they are in good shape for spring.

On your evening in your Coffee grounds are best put in the compost heap but there is no proof they eradicate slugs.

Micheal Ellard

This is a message for Jan.

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We seem to be slowly dying in here, the initial posters have all but dried up, so I have tried Scooploop and it seems a lot better.  Link below. 

Join me on ScoopLoop, the free website for our local community. Sign up to discover conversations, events, information, and recommended businesses in our neighbourhood. https://www.scooploop.com/?ref=DkNWOx

WE have a monthly what to do in the garden and topics like Sensory Garden at Sprowston Library just click on our web site https://aslakecommunitygrowers.wordpress.com/

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I wish to commission a local artist to produce at least one and possibly three or four pictures in the style of the 1930's Railway posters for me.
Something like the type shown below.

This is a paying job. That's correct I am willing to part with cash for this, so it would suit a starving NUotA student.

If you are interested in taking this commission then please call or text me (do not pm me) on 07758 786036 or email me: [email protected]