Eleven of us gathered for our second
week at the town end of the Ock Path on a lovely mild and sunny day, to continue
the work of renewing the woodchip path. Other tasks were clearing the nettles,
which were now growing fast, from around the young trees, clearing some patches
to sow more wild flower seeds, and of course, litter picking.
The wood chip was nearly all at one end
of the path and quite scattered so it was harder to collect and there was
further to push the wheelbarrows. Clearing the nettles revealed more
patches of wild flowers which we had planted in previous years, fritillaries and quite a lot of wild garlic. We hope eventually to
have fewer nettles and more wild woodland flowers in this area.
After a very welcome break for the
woodchip haulers and spreaders, we carried on with the tasks. We cleared a
couple of patches as far as possible of nettle roots and goose grass and sowed
wild flower seeds suitable for urban woodlands.
Sadly, we didn’t manage to
finish the path. Time and woodchip were running out and we had to leave a
stretch of a few metres.
-Eleanor
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Lydia
wheeling a barrow load of woodchip. |
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Shovelling woodchip. |
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Margaret
raking woodchip. |
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Tea
break by the Ock. |
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Fritillaries. |
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Jessica
and Janet preparing a patch for sowing. |
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