Lyneham Commons

Sour cherries are ripening up. Please feel free to share in the harvest.
Commons gardening cherries the harvest

https://theconversation.com/1-in-4-australians-is-lonely-quality-green-spaces-in-our-cities-offer-a-solution-188007

1 in 4 Australians is lonely. Quality green spaces in our cities offer a solution When the pandemic hit, green space was there for us at a time when others weren’t or couldn’t be. Urban greening might be the solution to the ‘lonelygenic environment’ that our cities have created.

We had a very satisfying working bee at the Commons today. The fruit trees have grown so well this year and today we harvested plums, apples and blackberries. There are also pears and pomegranates growing. The mown swales look great (see the before and after shots). In the next couple of weeks we'll mow again, put cardboard and then mulch down. There is lots of lucerne and grass growing in the berms, making a valuable resource that we cut and used as mulch around fruit trees. They also leave less space for the dreaded couch grass to grow. The acacias have grown a lot and they were pruned and will be used for mulch since they are nitrogen fixing. The branches can also be used to reconstruct our cross berm path borders. The cardoons and artichokes had reached their end so were cut down and the stems cut into short lengths to be used as bee hotels throughout the Commons. So many good things to see and do at the Commons.

As part of the working bee on Sunday we will be tidying up the swales that are very overgrown.
Please get in touch if you have a lawnmower we could borrow for the day.
Thanks in anticipation.