Two items – further working party and TLC needed around the site

Further working party:

PPAA Committee are very grateful for the valuable help given by the last working party.

Given the scale of the task it was always going to be that further work would be needed however, and so volunteers are invited to meet again for this on Saturday, 25th April, at 10:30.

As before the meeting place will be by the PPA communal poly tunnel by the southeast gate.

The invitation’s to all on site again, not just those who’ve previously volunteered. Would those interested please contact PPAA Committee (whether they’ve done this before or not).

Sincere thanks,

Mike Powell, Sue Pasek, PPAA Committee

TLC needed around the site:

The planting of pollinator-supporting flowing shrubs at various points around the site last season was successful, with a considerable number having found suitable homes. PPAA Committee are very grateful to those who volunteered to help with the planting.

Unfortunately, however, many of these are now in danger of being completely smothered by weeds, and a few have already been lost to this.

What is needed, then, is for volunteers to weed around the shrubs, and then, ideally, to apply a good layer of manure as a weed-suppressant mulch and also to fertilise the shrubs. A layer ten to fifteen centimetres thick should avert the need to keep re-weeding the plantings.

Everyone on site is invited to have a look and to see what they might do in this regard, not just those who kindly helped with the plantings. There’s no need to inform anyone if they should fancy a bit of pottering on this. (Committee members are otherwise heavily subscribed at the moment.)

(It’s apparent that a fair few PPA plot holders consider themselves to be ecologically-engaged and concerned people, so this is also a golden opportunity for them to invest something of themselves in improving things in that way on PPA!)

PPA Website Team