Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (27.4.24) meeting at 10.00 hours, in Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub). We are simply raking a large area, to unearth and remove decades of neglect before the spring growth returns.

We have removed an unbelievable amount of debris already, but having recently removed large areas of ground Ivy, the serious debris is now just beneath the surface. We want to remove this debris before the spring growth returns, to enable us to re-establish a safe and environmentally friendly haven for the good of the community, nature and wildlife.

We have recently finished the south slope which is now ready for the weed suppressing woodchip, so we will now be focusing on removing all the debris from the North Slope. In addition, Saxon Tree Services have made a fantastic thorough four-hour dent by removing ground Ivy roots and runners and debris in the West area.

Weekly Achievements & Thanks.

Last Saturday (20.4.24) continued raking and removing debris from the top of the north slope, resulting in three bin bags of rubbish and a new mountain of rubble debris and vegetation.

After the one-hour, I stayed on a little longer to safely brush cut the newly exposed Ivy and Bramble roots and runners. Whilst on Sunday, I planted the kindly donated 100 Nerine Bulbs from Gerry (local neighbour) in the Stafford Moreton Way project wildflower area and in the Woodend Community Woodland Project, in the children’s nature corner surrounding the bug hotel, to provide some colour later in the year.

Thank you to Paul who called in with a St John’s wort donation and some wonderful tips regarding freely available floor and fauna elsewhere.

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 would like to urgently remove the debris, please bring litter picker, garden fork, rigid rake (essential) not a lawn rake, to remove some of the embedded litter.

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.

If you’d like to trim the Ivy hedge, please bring hedge cutter, tree loppers.

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 26 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 187 bin bags of litter, a huge array of debris and 34 agricultural bags (plus an additional 2 ½ tons removed and two new heaps!) 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 which has been delayed from next April to commence in August.

A huge thank you once again for your generous support of our group, you really are amazing and making such a massive difference to our community at so many levels.

Pictured, our amazing volunteers: Diane, Joan, Dee, Ken and Colin and Frank not pictured.

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

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