Three brooks blog

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 we have been working on and attacked those plants growing in the open meadow.  Because of the amounts involved we slashed rather than pulled (I know, but not all of it will grow back and much that does will carry a reduced number of flower heads)   I use my new £12 grass hook from ‘presentsformen’ (yes that is the name of the web site) and it goes through HB, willowherb, nettles and thistles like a knife through, well, vegetation.  In fifteen minutes we had substantially cleared the area but then we retreated under the threat of sunstroke.