2014
May 30th
Area 3 > 2 in the copse
June 1st
Area 2 > Total 159. However 128 of these were near the corner with Trekensa gardens with a dozen off these along the track. Some ten in the corner by the boat and 21 over what was site 6
June 29thArea 2 > 125
June 30thArea 2 > 65 All of these were growing on the boat, just by chance I went there and a few were flowering. Filled a sack heavily.
July 1stArea 1 Trek 1 > Red and Yellow patches: 223 mostly on the slope to the drain and in the south east corner.
Area 1red Trek 2 > 95 all in the south east corner.
July 4th
Area 1X Slashed the area in the north west corner and also a couple of small patches invading from the eastern ditch, on route to pull the Japanese Knotweed.
July 9th
Area 1red 12
Area 1yellow 45
Checked over
Area 1X and slashed a bit of
Area 1green
July 14th
Trek 1 > Area 1yellow 4 on the way to-
Area 1green Slashed along the northern boundary and pulled a bag full from the eastern edge adjacent the drain.
Trek 2 > Area 1yellow 14 on the way to and from
Area 1green Cleared a few I missed earlier today.
Area 1blue Cleared all blue are and expanded it bit. Map of detail to follow with new patch, orange, added.
July 30th
Area 1red 13
Area 1yellow 11
Area 1green Cleared all, especially the northern boundary and south west around the willow tree..
Area 1blue Cleared
Area 1orange Cleared
August 3rd
Area 2 83 and 7 just south of the southern bund
August 9th
Area 3 None found
Area 2 Pulled over 100 from approx 30m of the northern boundary. All 30m north of the ditch cleared, 2 on Trekensa Gardens.
August 16th
Area 1red 10
Area 1yelow 78
I also gave Joe and ?? £100 as a gesture to help curtail the weed on his side of of the northern boundary although after a chat I understand he will ??? some of the weed on ELF's the 'flood' plain
August 17th
Area 1green
Area 1blue
Area 1orange
Cleared green and blue and half of the orange area with minimal expansion by slashing and collected only a bag full in total.
August 17thSecond Stint
Area 1yellow 19 and a few from the neighbours side.
Area 1green Cleared the north boundary again and pulled half a hundred from the neighbours side of the boundary; they have cleared a strip adjacent the boundary here.
The previous day they had told me they had cleared 'their' riverbank, which was noticeable today after all the other clearing, so I slashed ten metres of our river bund, shown by the light green dotted area in the north east corner, to protect their land from further colonisation from 'our' weed.
August 21st
Area 1red 2
Area 1yellow 3
Area 1green
Cleared along the northern border again, some half a dozen from our side and twice that from the other. I also cleared more of the river bund, down to the willow tree that marks the south east corner of green area that I have done and pulled few and slashed across the boundary to clear the neighbours river bund slightly. No indication of any more clearing done on the other side.
August 22nd
Area 2 32 and 9 on the west side of the bund in Area 3
September 2nd
Area 1red 22
Area 1yellow 41
September 6th
Area 1yellow 20
Area 1green Cleared all especially along northern border where I gathered a dozen or more form the neighbours side.
Area 1blue Cleared all
Area 1orange Cleared all
September 17th
Area 2 28
September 20th
Area 1red 14
Area 1yellow 39
September 30th
Area 1red 2
Area 1yellow 7
Area 1green 1and 6 from the bund
Area 1blue 1
Area 1orange 1
October 13th
Found none in Area1(red, yellow, green)
- Intro to Himalayan Balsam (page1)
- Area 1(page 2) is the land starting at the far north (Riverland) and working from inland to the river and then south. Page 3 is the diary of work for 2013
- Area 2(page 4) formerly Sites 3 and 6, is the land from the boat northwards towards Area 1.
- Area 3(page 6) formerly Sites 4 and 5 is the land from the boat westward and includes the main SSSI reed bed, The Southern Marsh. Page 7 is the diary of work for 2013.
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