Tag Archives: kidney vetch
Butterfly Bank
More work on the butterfly bank today. It’s looking good as far as I can tell… It needs to be sheltered grassland habitat so the scrub on the side will act as a barrier and the dead-hedge at the top … Continue reading
Look what I discovered!
More work on the butterfly clearing. Where we started clearing last week, we have nettles popping up!! What we want is grasses and kidney vetch wildflowers. It’s early days and there is still a load of scrub to clear. It’s … Continue reading
Do We Actually Know What We Are Doing?
This time of year probably makes people think that we don’t. It’s all very much work in progress and does look very messy. However, there is method in our madness. The path becomes a quagmire where it’s in cutting over … Continue reading
Busy Morning…
Oh yes, what a busy morning. Me, Reece and a kidney vetch plant started out. The plan was to snip back going north, from the underpass, but the kidney vetch needed to be planted south so we travelled southwards. This … Continue reading
Kidney Vetch Zone is Down
Great day on the greenway today. We managed to pick up a load of litter and also plant our Kidney Vetch seeds. Great to see Aaron, Mick, Jo, Neve, Howard and myself turning out on a cold day. We were … Continue reading
Awfully Slow Progress!!!
Mick, Aaron and me down at Berrybanks again today. It is slow and hard work and we are literally inching along at a painfully slow pace. This is where we are at, a nice V shape with a flat bottom. … Continue reading
Next Draycote Workday..
Next Draycote workday is Sunday 9th October at 1:30pm. Working on the bit next to the golf club. We can park at the golf club and gain access via the public footpath. Ask at the golf shop for directions and … Continue reading
It’s Looking Good!!!
Today I jumped on at Berrybanks and walked down to the bird-box clearing, where I met Mick and Aaron. Picked up about a third of a bag of litter. Some of it was aged stuff and a little bit of … Continue reading
Bear Litter-Pick
Mick and me finally got down to the bridge that goes over the greenway by The Bear pub. We wandered up to Berrybanks and then back again, picking up as much of the litter that we could reach. It was … Continue reading
Three Broken Rakes, Multiple Blisters – But Job Done!
At one point we had six of us working today. Aaron, Mick, Mike, John, me and a cameo from Sarah. Boy-oh-boy was it such hard work today. Butterfly Conservation cleared the area last year and the contractors put all the … Continue reading
