There's a working party planned for Saturday 6th March when the Dads Group will join other members of the St Nicholas family in the first stage in making the churchyard a more wildlife friendly place. The Dads are needed to prepare a trial area of approximately 2 m2 in the churchyard ( just over 21 square feet in real numbers) . Of course we'll be digging in a churchyard that has had a German bomb dropped on it and it has had plenty of animals digging around it over the years so there is just the possibility that bone fragments may turn up.
The tasks that need to be completed on the day are:
- Select site and carefully remove turf (dept of approximately 5cm.
- Place the turf on one side
- Dig down to a depth of approximately 5-10cm into the subsoil and place it on a tarpaulin to one side,
- Lay the turf back upside down into the bottom of the hole.
- Replace and covering it over with the subsoil which was dug out. Wildflower seedlings could then be placed into the soil.
There will be other working dates later in March and April when we'll need to plant plug plants into the trial area.
We'll make a further announcement about the times of the working day shortly.
