Well done to all the fantastic Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) volunteers, for their brilliant work, just before the rain! At their 18th consecutive one-hour weekly session, last Saturday (2.3.24), at the Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub).

Achievement.

• Hedge Woodchip. In just one hour, they amazingly wheelbarrowed tons of recycled woodchip from the Dell and spread it around last week’s newly planted 42m wildlife friendly hedge. The woodchip acts as a really attractive mulch to maximise the hedges growth by suppressing the weeds and improving hydration. The wood chip boosts growth by at least 50% and really helps with climate action and reduces car pollution significantly more than standard trees.
• Despite preparing the hedge area we still removed a further 8 bin bags of buried litter and debris in the process (including midweek support from Chris, Jill, and Frank) following over 30 years of neglect, in which we have discovered that the beautiful Dell has shamefully been treated as an open tip!
• Donated Planting. We were delighted to plant two shrubs (Hebe and Berberis) donated by Nikki & Steve and a Christmas tree donated by Carol.

Please Help, as many of are regulars are not available. We are returning this Saturday (9.3.24) at 10.00hrs and still need your support, to remove Ivy and litter slightly hidden under the surface.

Please check our website’s ‘event’ page at www.fomd.co.uk for more information and any last-minute changes. This is a one-hour event, without any commitment.

Equipment. All you will need are:

• Sturdy boots, garden gloves (essentials)
• If you are interested in helping to remove the ground Ivy to enable us to access the debris beneath, please bring a brush cutter/strimmer, protective glasses.
• Main Focus: If you would like to litter pick and remove debris, please bring litter picker, garden fork or rigid rake to remove some of the embedded litter.
• If you’d like to trim the Ivy hedge, please bring hedge cutter, tree loppers.

Pictured, our amazing volunteers: Rebecca, John, Sarah & Mauser (from the local family business – Saxon Tree Surgeons*), Sue, Mark, Dianne, Joan, Jorden and Chris (B), (Frank not pictured).  In addition, Jill and Chris (R), who helped midweek.

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 18 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 138 bin bags of litter, a huge array of debris and 24 (even more not bagged!) agricultural bags of tree and wall damaging Ivy, with multiple trips to the recycling centre. We have received some wonderful feedback and are clearly seeing the difference every time we are there.

This preparation is for Stage Two involving future green landscaping and planting to commence in April.

Looking forward to seeing you.

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information about this and other projects at: www.fomd.co.uk

(website created locally by www.abbeytech.net/)

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

*Saxon Tree Surgeons: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555652425418https://

www.saxontrees.co.uk/

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