CRICKET TASK FORCE AT GROW MAYOW 12TH APRIL 2014

Following construction of new water and waste facilities for the restored Pavilion, a volunteer Taskforce from Caribbean Mix CC (CMCC) and London West Indies CC (LWIMCC) will help rebuild raised beds for food growing at Grow Mayow under supervision of Erika Sager and Iris Borgers.

For those of you who have been following the major construction works on the sewer and disruption to the site at the front of Grow Mayow, you will know that its volunteers have a huge task to reconstruct the site and return it to its former glory. Plans are already in hand to rebuild the front area of Grow Mayow. The Mayow cricket taskforce will do their bit to help on Sat 12^th April as part of their on-going commitment to help the park and the community.

This exciting support from our home cricketers has come about through a generous reciprocal arrangement in which Tim Lund (www.lund.co.uk) will commit 12 hours computer programming time to construct a new website for Caribbean Mix CC.

Cricket fixtures 2014 in Mayow Park

Here is a list of fixtures, including Cricket Week which will take place 31st August to 5th September 2014, the last week of the school holidays.

Fixtures:  ‘CRICKET AT MAYOW’ 2014

1)         KRCL Home Fixtures in the following competitions – see heavy type below:

Kent Cricket League, Caribbean CUP Competition,

 2)         Friendly Home fixtures:

HERTS, SUSSEX Senior County XI’s

COMMUNITY XI’s from cricketing nations:

India, Pakistan, Asian, British Tamil Society, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, South Africa

APRIL Sat 26      CM - F            Bow Green                              

        Sun 27     CM - F            Oakfield Warriors-INDIA              

       Wed 30     LWIM-F          Sussex50/60/70+                    

MAY  Tues 13 CM – F           HERTS Seniors: to be played at Streatham Marlborough

Sat 17  CM                 OD CUACO              

          Sat 24    CM                 BOCA Sports                               

         Sun 25    LWIM            SIMBA Caribbean CUP                               

JUNE Sat 7    CM                 HSBC

         Sun 15    LWIM            STARLIGHT – Caribbean CUP                                                

         Sun 22    CM - F            Clapham Nomads                                      

        Sat 28      CM                 STREATHAM MARLBOROUGH

JULY Tues 1   LWI - F           SESCL Asia - tbc                                                       

         Sat 12     CM                 DULWICH                            

         Sun 27    LWIM             Pakistan XI                             

AUG Sat 2      CM                 ORPINGTON                                               

         Sun 3      CM - F            India XI - Dartford                                         

         Sun 10    CM - F            Billericay                                 

         Fri 15      LWI - F           NOMADS-Tony Leslie Mem.             

         Sat 16     CM                 HAYES                                  

         Sat 23     CM                 BLUE STAR                                                 

         Sat 30     CM                 STREATHAM MARLBOROUGH

 CRICKET WEEK

AUGUST     Sun 31     CM - F            Caribbean Ladies XI               

SEPT Mon 1   LWIM             TBA                            

          Tues 2    CM - F            MAYOW CUP MAYOR'S ‘Invitation’ XI's from:

                                                Lewisham, Bromley, Bexley & Greenwich

                                                Residents Open Day

         Thur 4     CM - F            Selsdon                                   

         Fri  5       CM - F            330 Academy 'Irratics' 

          Sat  6      CM - F            BLACKHEATH SELECT           

         Sun  7     LWI - F           East Essex Stallions     

         Sun 21    CM - F            Hawks

         Sat 27     LWI - F           SRI LANKA XI-KREEDA           

         Sun 28    CM - F            Morden           

Photos from workday on Thurs 27 Feb 2014

These photos should have been posted weeks ago but I forgot . . . .

Darren & Chris cut back ivy on the blackthorn

Volunteer & Park keeper pull out weeds

Workmen repair path after heavy vehicles used in major sewer works made the paths unsafe.

Work session THURS 25TH FEB 2014

There will be a joint work session with Glendale and FoMP volunteers on Thursday 27th February 2014 from 10am to midday.

We will focus our work on the Triangle beds, pruning raspberries, weeding and mulching round fruit bushes and in the herb beds. 

Glendale staff will be working alongside the Friends to prepare the beds for spring.

Meet near the entrance to the Bowls containers.
If you would like to join us please let FoMP know by email: friendsofmayowpark@ymail.com  so we can bring enough tools and refreshments

FOMP AGM & General Meeting 25th Jan 2014

So much is happening at the moment that I forgot to post this: 
Friends of Mayow Park AGM this coming Saturday 25th January 2014, 1pm - 1.30pm
The agenda will include a review of the past year and election of FOMP officers.
This will be immediately followed by a General Meeting which should include reports from Lewisham Greenscene and Glendale.
Both the AGM and General Meetings will be held at the bowls club.
 Agendas to follow.

EXTRA PHOTOS from orchard work session

spreading mulch

securing the fence

Some of the team hard at work this morning.

ORCHARD WORK 24 November 2013

Five of us, including the park keeper, weeded, pruned and mulched round 5 of the orchard trees.The two-hour session seemed to fly past and was very enjoyable. Thank you to Sue, Ann, Alona, Ian and Tunde.

Weeding

Collecting wood chips for mulching

There are 6 more trees to prepare for the winter so we are likely to have another session in two or three weeks time.

orchard work morning Sunday 24th Nov 2013

Friends of Mayow Park will have a work session at the community orchard on Sunday 24th November 2013 from 10.30am to 12.30pm.

The orchard is near the tennis courts.

Our tasks will include:

weeding and light pruning

mulching

No experience is necessary, learn new skills,  as we can show you what to do.
Bring a trowel and gardening gloves if you have them although we have some basic tools.
If we have time, there are additional tasks in the herb and fruit beds near the drinking water fountain.
Children can come along with a supervising adult.
By agreement with Glendale, we will have access to the portaloo toilet as well as facilities for making hot drinks. Light refreshments will be available!
See you there.

Nature's Gym - thank you

Nature's Gym volunteers, led by staff from Glendale and Lewisham, came to Mayow Park today (18th July 2013)on one of the hottest days of the year. They came to help tame the fruit bed in the Triangle that Mayow Park volunteers look after. And indeed they made an impact. They did these things: -stepping logs have been bedded in and it is easier to walk though the larger bed, -much of the couch grass has been pulled up, -log path edging has been put back where there were gaps, -two-thirds of the curved path has been recovered with a layer of wood chip mulch and that should make it easier for park volunteers to finish the task.

BULB PLANTING IN THE TRIANGLE December 2012

Two bulb planting sessions in Mayow Park on 8th December and 16th December with regular park users joining in. On 8th December a mother and her two children helped to plant 140 fritillaria around the holly tree and sitting logs near the path on the southern side of the Triangle.

The  holly trees  (left & right of  picture in middle distance)

A brother and sister planted fritillaria

A dad and his sons planted irises

16th December was a dry and sunny winter's day with plenty of visitors in the park. Two volunteers planted more fritillaries and some snowdrops by the holly tree and sitting logs on the north-eastern side of the Triangle. A father with his two sons were passing by and they joined in to plant irises on the slope by the Bowls club, on the western side of the Triangle to the right of the manhole cover and behind the silver birch trees. We have more bulbs to plant as soon as possible.

Updates

It has been a while since the last post and I am very aware that Friends of Mayow Park  need a communications officer with available time to keep the FOMP blog up to date and lively.
Going back to Friday 12th October , we had a very successful workday working alongside Glendale's grounds maintenance team. They went about their planned work in the park but also helped the Mayow Park volunteers.

Glendale staff help to mulch fruit trees

The orchard: One task that day was to mulch round the outside of the fencing of the orchard trees in order to keep down weeds. It is important not to mulch over the graft join of each tree as this may cause the tree to grow suckers which are likely to be different to the fruit tree variety we are growing, hence the reason for ensuring the mulch was outside the fencing. While  the mulching was going on, some volunteers were busily removing weeds in the tree pits.

volunteer digging and weeding

Meanwhile, at the Triangle, volunteers were busily dead-heading, removing dead plants, pulling up bindweed and tidying up the herb bed. A start was made on the larger bed, containing fruit bushes and various flowering plants, but there was not the time to do a thorough job there.
Glendale staff kindly helped with the weeding and clearing.

Glendale staff removing vegetation by rockery

The highlight of the day was Glendale's work clearing the huge amount of plant growth adjacent to our new drinking water fountain to reveal a rock wall, which is part of the retaining wall to the bowls site. I remember many years ago when my children were small, that they used to enjoy clambering onto that wall. It will make a good rockery area, so please get back to me with suggestions of what to grow or any donations of suitable plants.
The park volunteers put in around 2 hours of work and when we left Glendale continued their work, strimming, cutting the grass and general grounds maintenance.

 I must thank Glendale for agreeing this one-off joint session. I believe we ALL enjoyed the opportunity of working in partnership.

preparing the community orchard for winter

We will have a work session on Friday 12th October 2012 from 10am to midday, to prepare the community orchard for winter. We planted the orchard early this year and the trees have survived  drought and excessive rainfall since spring.
The damp weather has encouraged other plants (i.e. weeds) to encroach round the tree pits so we will be removing weeds both inside the netting and in the mulch outside the netting. After that we will put a thick layer of woodchip mulch around the tree pits.
It would be good to have a few energetic volunteers to make a big impact. In addition, Glendale managers have agreed that some of their staff will be in the park to assist us at the orchard. This gives us a unique opportunity to work together with Lewisham's park maintenance contractors.
If we  finish the work at the orchard, then there is autumn tidying up to be done at the Triangle too.
Do try to  join us for a short while or the whole session.
If you have any queries, contact us on friendsofmayowpark@ymail.com

work session with Glendale in October

No date has been finalised yet but Glendale managers have offered a work session alongside park volunteers at the community orchard in October 2012. It will have to be a weekday and is likely to be a Thursday or Friday morning.
With autumn arriving, this will be an opportunity to weed the area round each fruit tree and tidy each tree pit, finishing with a good layer of woodchip mulch.

Work session with Glendale 13th Sept 2012

We have previously had work sessions in Mayow Park alongside Nature's Gym and we are now planning to have a work session with Glendale. Our Community Orchard needs some time spent to remove weeds round the trees and put a fresh layer of well-rotted woodchip. Friends of Mayow Park are delighted that Glendale managers have agreed to provide some additional  help. It will be an great opportunity for grounds maintenance staff and park volunteers to care for the area together.

The session will be on Thursday 13th September from approximately 10am to midday. Glendale will, in fact, be there before that time and continue after. This will be a weekday and many of you will be unable to attend. However, it would be great if some of our volunteers can come along, lend a hand or simply show your support.

Theatre: a beach near you

Greenwich & Lewisham Young People's Theatre came to perform in Mayow Park today, their theme - a beach near you! They set up and were ready for the first performance shortly after 1pm.

Soon the audience was getting into the spirit of the British beach scene: there was a boat, a mermaid, sunbathing, trying to put up a deckchair (which caused a few chuckles from older members of the audience, remembering their own experiences in the past!).
But when the dancing beach huts performed, the rain decided it wanted a share of the action. So, unfortunately, rain stopped play. The rain persisted, so that the 4pm performance was also  cancelled.

Hopefully the performances over the next few days at Beckenham Place Park, Bellingham and Mountsfield Park will have better weather.

Mayow Park Community Orchard

Today, four Friends of Mayow Park attended the Orchard Leaders Training run by London Orchard Project in preparation for a new community orchard planned for Mayow Park in January 2012. We met at Myatts Fields Park in Lambeth.  Our training included fruit tree planting and maintenance, community engagement and starting to write an orchard management plan.  

London Orchard project will lead the community planting day in January and we hope a good number of people can participate.

We have some great ideas for future events based around the orchard and would like to hear ideas from other people. Park users can be involved in care and maintenance of this Community Orchard by contacting friendsofmayowpark@ymail.com .  

To give you a flavour of the fruit varieties, the proposal is for five apple varieties on MM106 semi-dwarfing root stocks, three pears (including two perry pears) and two varieties of plum.

We are looking for individuals or community groups to sponsor the fruit trees. If interested please email friendsofmayowpark@ymail.com