Saturday 24th September
This week we had decided to make completing as much as possible of the landscaping work at the eastern end of the land this autumn a priority, so a work party seemed a good idea.
Some days everything seems to click. Today was not one of those.
One of the bags of crush gravel had fallen onto the temporary fencing, knocking it to a crazy angle and bending the metal fence panel. Once a tonne of gravel had been shovelled off the fence and spread over the entrance it was possible to dismantle the fence and straighten the damaged panel. Â We then spent time clearing and levelling the ground under the fence so it could be re-erected. Â The finished job looked better than before, but this was not today's intended task.
After lunch we started on the planned tasks for the day:
- First we fixed the stockproof wire netting to the repaired post and rail fence between the eastern end of the plot and the towpath.
- We spread more topsoil in that eastern end: the aim is to have enough to create a seed but not so much that the soil is highly fertile as lower fertility encourages a greater diversity of wildflowers.
- Areas were marked out for sowing the wildflower mix: we have been sowing 10m2 patches to spread the seed evenly.
- We sowed the remained of the seed that we currently have: more is on order.
