Southern Town Park Abingdon, Saturday 11th March 2023
This weeks' blog was written by Eleanor D
Just seven of us met in the Youth Football Club car park, the fewest there have been at a session for some time. The tasks were to tidy up the wild flower bed, extend it a bit and sow new seeds. Of course, there was litter picking to do as well.
Carolyn, Kevin and Harry nobly took on the task of litter picking. As you see from the photos Kevin took, they found an old bird’s nest and a small animal skull. Meanwhile, Joan and Graham set to work raking the area around the wild flower patch, where there were a lot of fallen twigs and branches and Rosie and I dug up nettles in and around the patch, trying not to disturb the plants coming through.
We then started to dig out new patches for the seeds we had brought. This was surprisingly easy as the ground was very soft as a result of the recent heavy rain.
At tea break time the faithful few were rewarded with chocolate biscuit and marshmallow refrigerator cake. Then it was back to work with more litter picking, while the others set about clearing a bramble patch and I finished off digging the new beds.
We met up again at midday to sow the seeds. We had borage, vetch, corn marigold, corn chamomile knapweed, field scabious, and cornflower. If they are successful, photos will follow in the Summer.
We set off back to the car park, feeling we had achieved a lot with such small numbers.
attending to the wild flower patch |
sowing more seeds |
tea time! |
yum! |
litter pickers picking litter |
findings whilst litter picking |
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