Annual General Meeting 2017

27th Feb 2017 by Dogbury

This years Annual General Meeting will be held on 19th March 2017 in the poly-tunnel adjacent to the association hut off the main area car park

Arrival and refreshments at 10:00am meeting to start promptly at 10.30am

To save on paper i am not printing copies of the previous meetings minutes, they will be read out. They will be published on the web site in a few days. Please read them and print your own copies off. The agenda will also be published prior to the meeting.If anyone has something for the agenda or wishes to contribute a topic, please get in touch with Jackie before Sunday 12th.

We are always on the lookout for new Committee Members if you would like to become one please see Jackie for a nomination form, alternatively you can access the form and print it off using the link below:

https://goo.gl/3FlIxm

This is your organisation please support it by turning up.

Thank you

Jackie Medcalf

Secretary

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Compost Sales

20th Feb 2017 by Dogbury

For the information of all.  Compost and other supplies are now on sale from the association hut off the main car park.  To make things easier the hut will be staffed between 10am and 12 midday on Saturdays and Sundays for the next few weeks to facilitate sales.

Please be aware that these supplies are already selling fast and that at least a quarter of the compost we had delivered last week has already gone as well as half of the bamboo canes.  If you want some you need to come and get it while stocks last.  The price of supplies available are as follows:

  • Mother Earth Compost 70 litres – £4.20
  • Growbags – £2.60
  • Growmore Granules – 25 Kg – £16.00
  • Fish Blood and Bone Feed – 25 Kg – £12.00
  • Canes 8ft – £0.40 each
  • Lime – £4.30

If you want supplies outside of these times please find Steve Williams, Steve Yorke or Jackie and Steve Medcalf when they are available.  Also try and remember to bring the correct money for the items you want to buy as we struggle for change at times.

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Compost Delivery 2017

10th Feb 2017 by Dogbury

The compost will be delivered next Tuesday 14th Feb between 9.30am and 10.30am, it’s not a massive order but a few helping hands to offload the lorry would be appreciated. Can you let me know if you can come along and help carry them into store.

Thank you

Jackie

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NEWS AND REMINDERS

4th Feb 2017 by Dogbury

For information the inspection of the Allotments will take place on Friday 17th February.

This years compost delivery will be some time week commencing the 13th February,  please look out for pleas to help unload. I will not know exact times until 48 hours before delivery.

There are some price changes but as always we are not making a profit and are passing on the cost price to us with a little give and take as i have tried to reduce the more expensive items without us making a loss. They prices are as follows.

  • Mother Earth Compost 70lts – £4.20 –  (RRP £4.73)
  • Growbags – £2.60
  • Growmore Granules – £16.00 – (RRP £18.52)
  • Fish blood and bone – £12.00
  • Canes 8ft – £0.40 each
  • Lime – £4.30

The Annual General Meeting will be on Sunday 19th March. The meeting will start at 10.30am with refreshments and sign in from 10am.

Also I know we are all concerned about the pot holes on the main roadway. We have sourced a supplier of road stone and this will be delivered and laid by April.  We will be asking for gardeners help to do this work nearer the time.

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Missing Cat

14th Jan 2017 by Dogbury

I am writing to various organisations in the Bilborough and Wollaton area to remind them that my cat Bramble is still missing. I have had three independent ‘sightings’ of him over the past week or so in the area around Harrison’s Plantation, including one today from Torvill Drive close to the junction with Old Coach Road where it passes over the railway line and another on Grantleigh Close, which crosses Old Coach Road a little further south.
If this is my cat, he may be hanging around Old Coach Road on either side of the railway line, so please keep a lookout for him. He may also be living in Harrison’s Plantation and visiting the area around Martins Pond. He will not go near Glaisdale Drive or Wollaton Road as he is terrified of traffic, although he is used to using the railway embankment as a thoroughfare.
I am attaching some photos of him. He is large (about 34″ long) with a bib but no white on his face. If you see him, please contact me at any time on 0115 928 2896, my neighbour Mae on 0115 928 6385 or my cousin Lynn on 0115 989 0243. Lynn can arrange for you to send a photo to her mobile or by email. If he looks unwell, please do not hesitate to contact the RSPCA. He is listed with them locally as missing and his reference no. is 2193. He is a patient with Ambivet on Lambourne Drive and is microchipped. The Vet on Glaisdale also has a poster about him.
Please feel free to forward this message to friends in the area, especially the block described by Lambourne Drive/Torvill Drive and Russell Drive as if Bramble is still with us, this is likely to be one of the places that he would go, the other possibly being Balloon Woods (where I have investigated some sightings of lookalike cats recently).

 

If you spot the cat please contact the owner or her other contacts above.

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COUNCIL INSPECTION

13th Jan 2017 by Dogbury

We have not yet had our inspection for 2016, i have just received notification that from now on the inspections will be carried out in January/February each year. The results will be known within two weeks and follow up inspections if necessary will be in May.

I know that the majority of our gardens are in good order however there are some hedges that are over the council’s 5ft limit.If you have plastic chain fencing within the hedge then it is acceptable in my view to have a hedge of around 6ft.

I have not yet arranged a date but have been asked to do so.  

Please therefore will you as a matter of urgency get your hedges to the required standard and if you are one of the few with gardens that look unkempt and show signs of not reaching the standard last year please arrange to do the work within the next couple of weeks.

If you are unable to do your own hedges I will arrange for it to be done for you but at a cost of £10 to £20 pounds which will go towards the running of a charity garden we are setting up.

If your plot is not of the required standard when the second inspection takes place, you are likely to lose your tenancy.

Please contact me urgently if this causes you a problem, Jackie

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New Gates

4th Nov 2016 by Dogbury

The new main gates are ready for use. There are a few minor niggles which need to be addressed such as the way the padlock is attached to the gate, which is a bit awkward to deal with at the moment. Additionally the ground bolts have no location so the gates cannot be pinned back. It is likely to be windy in the next few days so be careful the gates don’t blow back onto your car when moving through them. Lastly, the new pedestrian gate which has been added will remain locked until we have made the ground on the inside of the gate a bit safer.

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Reminder

1st Nov 2016 by Dogbury

Hi all. To confirm, the main gates to the allotment will be closed and unusable tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd. You will be able to access the main site again via those gates on Thursday 4th.

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