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Tuesday 21st April 2026 - With a work experience student out with the fair sized turnout of a team, the volunteers spent the day in the Western boundary of Roundshaw Downs.
Even though the day remained bright a cutting wind blew across the downs as the team sprang into action.
As the Tractor and flail collector kept busy cutting the surrounding parcels of grassland the rest of the team got to grips with liberating trees and a general push-back of Bramble on the grass edges, weeded Cleavers and more Bramble from the midst's of a large patch of Wood Avens and playing somewhat of a long game dug out as much emergent Hog Weed as they could on the grassland to give the more desirable species a fighting chance of spreading.
Even though the day remained bright a cutting wind blew across the downs as the team sprang into action.
As the Tractor and flail collector kept busy cutting the surrounding parcels of grassland the rest of the team got to grips with liberating trees and a general push-back of Bramble on the grass edges, weeded Cleavers and more Bramble from the midst's of a large patch of Wood Avens and playing somewhat of a long game dug out as much emergent Hog Weed as they could on the grassland to give the more desirable species a fighting chance of spreading.
Tuesday 16th April 2026 - Todays outing for the team saw them carrying out works along the new Wandle Public Open Space adjacent to Wandle Valley Wetland as well as visiting Spencer Road Wetland to clear a bit of large and small scale littering.
With an early division of the team both ends of the Wandle Valley development got a thorough picking over of undesirable plant species from in the midst of rarer species that have been planted up and seeded.
Moving to Spencer Road once work had been completed, larger items of fly tipped rubbish were hauled from the flowing waters of the Wandle whilst smaller specimens and a couple of larger tree trunk sections were removed from the weir before a full blockage could develop.
With an early division of the team both ends of the Wandle Valley development got a thorough picking over of undesirable plant species from in the midst of rarer species that have been planted up and seeded.
Moving to Spencer Road once work had been completed, larger items of fly tipped rubbish were hauled from the flowing waters of the Wandle whilst smaller specimens and a couple of larger tree trunk sections were removed from the weir before a full blockage could develop.
Tuesday 14th April 2026 - It was a warm welcome back to one of the stalwart volunteers after a couple of months absence as the team now back to full strength set to work on a sunlit Carshalton Road Pastures.
As the tractor and flail dashed to and fro over the site performing a spring grass cut, the volunteers were afforded a degree of protection from the sharp chilly wind blowing across the site by using their voluminous turnout to push back straggling Bramble from the field dividing boundary to the open grassland left untouched a couple of weeks ago.
As the tractor and flail dashed to and fro over the site performing a spring grass cut, the volunteers were afforded a degree of protection from the sharp chilly wind blowing across the site by using their voluminous turnout to push back straggling Bramble from the field dividing boundary to the open grassland left untouched a couple of weeks ago.
Saturday 11th April - The local community were back out in force this morning. This time we were at Sutton Common continuing to plant wildflowers to enhance the site's grassland.
It was encouraging to hear how much local people value the work that has taken place over the last few years and resulted in an increase in colour and wildlife.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the work over the years and to Veolia's Sustainability Fund for making our recent planting possible.
If you want to help with future work take a look at our previous posts, or visit sncv.org.uk
It was encouraging to hear how much local people value the work that has taken place over the last few years and resulted in an increase in colour and wildlife.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the work over the years and to Veolia's Sustainability Fund for making our recent planting possible.
If you want to help with future work take a look at our previous posts, or visit sncv.org.uk
Thursday 9th April 2026 - The team numbers may have been a little lower than normal, but a number of tasks got completed across Roundshaw Downs anyway.
Starting the day and the majority of the works at the Northern Meadow of the playing fields area, the team managed to get the whole area cut (so much easier when you have the tractors flail collector mower back in operation after last years absence!), a disease resistant Elm tree planted in some very chalky ground, cleared out self seeded Cherry saplings and trailing Bramble from the site edges, exposed a few patches of bare soil on the grassland after removing residual grass thatch build-up and weeded out some of the Butterfly Bank.
The final mission saw a move to the Southern Butterfly Bank where a brief mow around the bank was carried out, some more weeding of undesirables on the bank was undertaken and marker posts were added to the area boundary keep the rewilded grass from getting the same constant mowing as the remainder of the playing fields.
Starting the day and the majority of the works at the Northern Meadow of the playing fields area, the team managed to get the whole area cut (so much easier when you have the tractors flail collector mower back in operation after last years absence!), a disease resistant Elm tree planted in some very chalky ground, cleared out self seeded Cherry saplings and trailing Bramble from the site edges, exposed a few patches of bare soil on the grassland after removing residual grass thatch build-up and weeded out some of the Butterfly Bank.
The final mission saw a move to the Southern Butterfly Bank where a brief mow around the bank was carried out, some more weeding of undesirables on the bank was undertaken and marker posts were added to the area boundary keep the rewilded grass from getting the same constant mowing as the remainder of the playing fields.
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