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How to get all your
allotment essentials
on a budget?
Since 1973, Norfolk Greenhouses have been providing great value essentials to gardeners and grow your own enthusiasts everywhere. Our range of equipment includes everything from cloches to greenhouses and loads in between.
Our entire range uses no glass, and offers safety and low maintenance properties to your plot. We use a mix of steel frames, clear as glass plastic sheeting, insulating twin wall panels and attractive green trims to get a great balance between safety, quality, aesthetic and value.
The Ultimate Greenhouse range is priced from just £199 for 4ft
x 6ft Spacesaver, up to £349 for the largest 12ft x 6ft model. All come with great features such as wide double sliding doors, rear sliding vents, guttering and exible basing options. We deliver in 3-5 working days for free to the UK mainland. A full range of sizes of supporting greenhouse staging and heaters are available from just £20.
We also offer a very popular fruit cage with door for just £69, easy to assemble and secure including free delivery. The cage protects your fruit and other crops from birds but still allows important pollinating insects through. The fruit cage is modular and can be expanded with our extension kit.
You can read more about our other products including cloches & cold frames from £29, greenhouse heaters from £25, plant stands &
supports from £20, potting benches from £39 and much more on our website www.norfolk-greenhouses.co.uk or give our friendly
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Bee connected
This is a nationwide initiative that provides a more ef cient and effective way for farmers to inform beekeepers of their intention to apply an insecticide. Allotment beekeepers can register their hives and receive a noti cation that enables a timely response. Supported by the BBKA and NFU. https://www.beeconnected.org.uk/
Free Learning courses from the Open University
Learn about the essential numerical skills required for accounting and bookkeeping. This free course and introduction to bookkeeping and accounting explains the fundamental rules of double-entry bookkeeping and how they are used to produce the balance sheet and the pro t and loss account. www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management
International Compost Awareness Week – 7 – 14 May 2017
The Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that the use of a home compost bin diverts approximately 150 kilogrammes of waste per household away from land ll sites each year, and of course it produces valuable rich compost to help out in the garden, so isn’t it about time you gave composting a go? For more details visit http://www. carryoncomposting.com/.
Upcoming Events
May
RHS Malvern Spring Festival - 11-14 May 2017 Devon County Show – 18-20 May 2017
Royal Welsh Spring Festival – 20-21 May 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show – 23-27 May 2017 Hertfordshire County Show – 27-28 May 2017 The Kent Garden Show – 27-29 May 2017
June
The Suffolk Show – 31 May-1 June 2017
Royal Bath & West Show – 31 May-3 June 2017 Gardening Scotland – 2-4 June 2017
RHS Chatsworth Flower Show – 7-11 June 2017
Royal Cornwall Show – 8-10 June 2017
South of England Show – 8-10 June 2017
BBC Gardeners World Live – 15-18 June 2017
Royal Three Counties – 16-18 June 2017
House & Garden Festival – 21-24 June 2017
RHS Garden Harlow Carr Flower Show – 23-25 June 2017 Woburn Abbey Garden Show – 24-25 June 2017
July
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show – 4-9 July 2017 Kent County Show – 7-9 July 2017
Great Yorkshire Show – 11-13 July 2017
Royal Welsh Show – 24-27 July 2017
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park – 19-23 July 2017
The Garden Show at Loseley Park – 28-30 July 2017 New Forest & Hampshire County Show – 25-27 July 2017
STOP PRESS
The Society are saddened to announce that Life Member Christine Brown, secretary of Birmingham and District Allotment Confederation and stalwart supporter of the allotment movement died on Wednesday 29 March.
She will be greatly missed.
Malvern Spring Show – come along to the NAS stand and say hello!
UK based customer service team a call on 020 3011 2040. We are offering
a massive 15% discount to
readers until
30/06/2017, use code ALLOT17
on the website or quote it on the
telephone to claim your discount.
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