20111030 Wild Flower Meadow Clean Up and Grass Cutting

few of us gathered to sort out the wild flower meadow. Since it inception the meadow was deliberately more or less left alone. Julian looked after it, repaired the fence and watered regularly the ground in summer (with considerable effort!!) and when needed re-turfed part of the grass sods that were stripped and remedied other vandalisms.

However it was decided that major work would wait for autumn to give the grasses a chance to establish a cover and for the turf to stabilise.

The counterpart of this is that the vegetation (and the rubbish) eventually form a thick cover that left in place would eventually prevent other plants and flowers from growing back.

So in the absence of grazing and the absence of the park maintenance contractors involvement * , FoSSP has to do it from time to time.