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In July Gareth went on a scything course at Surrey Wildlife Trust’s Pucks Oak Barn Orchard. COPSE was to cut and collect a meadow area at Parsons Green, Haslemere, using scythes borrowed from the National Trust. Unfortunately, due to time constraints we could not scythe the meadow and had to strim the grass instead! Waverley BC re-planted a resident’s pear tree into the orchard. With the residents, we weeded and watered the apple trees, as well as collected and removed cut grass. Two yellow rattle plants were observed in the meadow, with plans to scarify and seed more in autumn.
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COPSE continues our monthly weeding, mulching and watering at the Hog’s-Back Orchard, on behalf of Puttenham PC. Maintenance has been made much easier on this Chalk Downland orchard with a path mown between the trees. During tree establishment it is important to supress unwanted plants under young trees, which we do by hand-pulling, digging and mulching. Near to this orchard, kidney vetch scrapes have established (food plant for the small blue butterfly). Elsewhere at Swan Barn we set-free and mulched a Marriage Maker apple (planted 2023), smothered in brambles! Maintaining a mown, bramble-free space around these trees helps with weeding.
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CategoriesAuthorsGareth is an ecologist interested in conserving traditional orchards and heritage fruit, for people and wildlife. 
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