Thursday 12th March 2026 - Having completed a two site trip on Tuesday the team upped the ante on todays activities and managed to squeeze in three, Wandle Edge, Riverbank Way and Cheam Rec.
The bright skies of two days ago had disappeared and chilly forceful winds could be heard in the creaking of trees as the fair turnout of volunteers set about their tasks.
Beginning at Wandle Edge the team was divided between the usual on site task of weeding out Nettles and other undesirables on the improving grassland and tidying up remnants of trees that that had been taken down and chipped by stacking logs and branches and condensing the spread of chippings on the open areas of land.
Keeping in roughly the same area and carrying over some of the same activities at Riverbank Way the banks were cleared of their batch of undesirable plant species before the team made the journey to the opposite area of the borough to install Cheam Rec's boundary marker's for this sites SFI areas.
Tuesday 10th March 2026 - Although the team numbers was on the slightly smaller side today two sites got the volunteers attention.
Kicking off todays bright Spring day at Cuddington Rec the troops were divided between two activities. As one division followed up the Bramble clearance to areas pushed back last year which had greened over nicely with grasses and opened up some other pinch-points of Bramble the remaining squad set about installing marker posts to the sites wild grass areas.
With some of the sites now in the SFI (Sustainable Farming Incentive) scheme, the smaller parcels of land on some of the bigger park-land sites need to be readily identifiable and the installation of small posts with reflective taping on the boundary limits seemed just the ticket, a practice continued at the next site on the tour, Perretts Field.
Thursday 5th March 2026 - It was a gloriously sunny Spring day for todays assembly of a team plying their trade at Roundshaw Downs.
Working in the South-East corner of the Southern cattle paddock, Bramble clearance was the main thrust of the days work as the team pushed back restrictive swathes of their prickly foe to allow the cattle greater access to narrow areas and to hopefully wake any
dormant seed resting in the soil below.
Tuesday 3rd March 2026 - A bright Spring day saw the team supplemented by a new volunteer and a work experience student as they carried out more works on the Western half of Roundshaw Woods.
Another day of vegetation control measures saw the first half of the day devoted to a synchronised pushing back of Snowberry in the Northern boundary, a few of the team lopping off the mass of six foot stems before the brigade with the poppers followed up by removing the residual stumps.
Moving along to the North-West corner in the afternoon, as brushcutting to Bramble a raking up of fallen leaf litter to the pathways got underway, the rest of the team began thinning out self seeded Ash and Sycamore with a more concentrated attack on Holly which was starting to make a shadowing screen to the inner woods.
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