http://three-brooks.info/blog Three brooks blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:04:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Saturday the conservation group cleared and improved irrigation channels at the Marsh.  The irrigation has been so successful that the entire area is heavily blanketed in plant life, tall plant life. It was necessary to cut a path through the jungle to find the exiting channels.   We put one ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=275 Today nine Green Gym volunteers cleared tree guards from trees at the bottom of the tump,  Sections of the area were quite cut off by undergrowth and in idyllic weather felt like being in the middle of a huge forest particularly in one grove of cherry trees.  ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=273 Or rather grass cutting in the drizzle.  Yuo know, that thin miserly rain that almost isn't there but still soaks you. The shorn grass looks very untidy with so many spots not cut due to the presence of wild flowers in seed. But then that's the point of it all. Highlight of the ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=270 Hi I'm back. From bonny Scotland where I very much enjoyed the scotch.  Oh and the people too.   The Edinburgh Tattoo was superb especially the New Zealand military band who played martial music, did ballet dancing and highland fling and best of all a Haka. Green Gym this week back to normal, ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=268 Hi all Today seven volunteers walked the reserve from Sherbourne's Brake to the tool store looking for  work tasks in the southern section of the reserve. Next week we should be HB bashing once again but the troops are looking mutinous after quite a few weeks spent at this ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=266 Today seven Green Gym volunteers took a walk around the northern section of the reserve.  We cleaned orienteering markers where we found them but mostly we look out for tasks for the future. We found quite a few, mostly of the path clearing or tree surgery type but ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=264 Yesterday seven volunteers visited the Community Orchard to follow up Saturdays haymaking by the main conservation group.   The grass having stood up in the intervening period it was easy to spot the bits missed.  The weather was even hotter than Saturday and Greg felt the heat a ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=261 Today eight volunteers (including Greg's helper) went Himalayan Balsam hunting in an little explored area near, and connected to,  the marsh. This is a major HB area totally mixed in with Stinging Nettles and Willow-herb.    So we resorted to cutting the HB  and the nettles/willow-herb) rather than attempting ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=259 This week five volunteers took a trip to Winterbourne where we were shown round the Monkspool and Bradley Brook LNR's by Frank Smith who founded the reserves over thirty years ago.  The weather was fine and the trip most enjoyable.  The Winterboune reserves score over BS in ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=257 Today five volunteers visited the 'Middle Plantation'  to clear ash regrowth from felled trees. The weather was perfect the birds were singing and the plantation was all green and verdant - I'm sorry I am waxing poetical.  Quentin and I went down to the Himalayan Balsam site ... http://three-brooks.info/blog/?p=254