Task Reports

As well as ongoing orchard maintenance we will be preparing the site for summer playscheme visits and harvesting the rest of the soft fruit.

We concentrated today on vegetation clearance, weeding under the fruit trees and readying the site for use by summer play-scheme groups in August.

Continuing dry stone walling - an opportunity for creative use of on-site materials as well as clearance and weeding and maybe planting.

Despite heavy rain all day we cleared vegetation and made a start on another entrance way further down to enable people to walk through the woodland garden.  The volunteers were treated by the residents to homemade soup which was much appreciated.

Clearing himalayan balsam in Northcliffe woods from the slopes above the pond and from the banks along the beck.There will also be some footpath clearing and silt trap emptying for those who prefer to avoid slopes.

We cleared Himalayan Balsam from around the pond, up the banking above the pond and along the banking above Northcliffe dyke. We were joined by Aire Rivers Trust and a group of homeschoolers who heard about the activity through Friends of Northcliffe.

Levelling the area around the shed and feeding and netting fruit bushes as well as general orchard maintenance.

We worked on levelling the uneven ground around the new apple store, netting fruit bushes, cutting grass paths and weeding paths around the growing beds.

We are at Culture Fusion again tomorrow at least to start with, the tomatoes need staking and supporting, courgettes and runner beans planting out, we are nearly there with weeding the meadow, (one last push), oxeye daisies need spreading out around the meadow. etc  

We can go up to the nature reserve later if we decide we want to. (we don't have a minibus driver for tomorrow, so we could walk, car or taxi).

We will be doing general orchard maintenance, mowing, feeding trees, weeding, netting bush fruit etc 

We will be working with Aire Rivers Trust, on completing a revetment and on pathwork.

Continuing with the roof garden. We will be building bed/mini greenhouse for tomatoes, staking tomatoes, planting vegetables, weeding the meadow, sowing seeds, potting up seedlings etc.

Continuing with the roof garden. We will be building bed/mini greenhouse for tomatoes, staking tomatoes, planting vegetables, weeding the meadow, sowing seeds, potting up seedlings etc.

We returned to the project at Sydenham place to help the residents group to expand the area of their woodland, wildlife garden, they and we have been making on a patch of formerly fly-tipped waste ground. Filling a skip full of rubbish was the priority task for the day.  We also helped with some weeding and cutting back.