Sunday 30 June 2013

FOMP General Meeting 9th July 2013

The next Friends of Mayow Park general meeting will be on Tuesday 9th July, starting  at 7pm and aiming for a prompt finish at 8.30pm. It will be held at Dacres wood Nature reserve Field Centre.


(The Centre is a single storey building located up driveway between Homefield House & Catling Close. Go through gates and turn left into building)

 We are particularly keen to invite regular park users to join us including dog walkers, sports groups, young people aged 16+, parents of young children and others.

For more information email: friendsofmayowpark@ymail.com




















Orchard watering volunteers June2013

The last posting on this blog was 24th May so it is about time for a new post.
The orchard trees are really looking well since the new arrangements for watering have been in place. There are 8 orchard volunteers; seven have one tree each to water and the remaining four trees are watered by the 8th volunteer.
This year and next, from around March to September/ October, each tree has 20 litres of water a week. Each volunteer has found a watering time and routine that suits them. Thank you to all the volunteers and their hard work.
One of the trees has been afflicted by aphids which have made the leaves curl and turn brown, so I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of ladybirds, lacewings and hoverflies and particularly their larvae. The larvae of all of these look more threatening than the adults! These photos came from the internet.
ladybird larva


Lacewing larva
hoverfly larva