General
Keeping the pavements passable: It has been noticed that some of the trees, hedges and bushes growing in people’s gardens are making the pavements difficult to navigate especially where the pavement is narrow. Birds using branches by footpaths will be leaving nests this month so a piece will go in the newsletter asking folks to trim vegetation to allow full width to be used.
September event – we are putting up the gazebos in the community garden on 14th September and inviting people and groups to join us. All suggestions of themes and activities are welcome, preferably before the 30th July.
Website: We are continuing to upgrade the content of our website, this month will be adding the information on the path group and we are looking for photos to go with the info. If you have any that will help us in this task, please contact us and we will see how they fit with the content.
Website Designing: I would like to encourage you to look at our website, we would like any suggestions of what else we could include in it and if you like to see any changes to the present site.
Community Garden
Fruit: the gooseberries and blackcurrants are starting to ripen and the redcurrants will need a few days of warmer weather. We hope to suppress and weaken the grass in future years but at the moment as the rain has fed the weeds so long trousers are needed for warmth and scratch protection!
Activity day coordinator: At the Activity days there will be a person who is nominated to coordinate the work on the day, they will be responsible for assigning the volunteers to the tasks in hand, ensuring health and safety is adhered to and to welcome any new volunteers to the activity day. Murial Brydon has volunteered to do this task, for any reason she is not able to attend that month, then the management committee will assign someone to this role.
Activity Day: This will be on Saturday 13th July, from 10 to 2pm. We would like to replace the wood chipping around the raised beds, the old chipping to be removed and placed around the fruit trees. Please come and help us, for as long or shorter a time you can spare.
Steens
New Signs: We have now got total agreement for the two information boards that we got funding for last year, one of these is to be placed in Bogbeth park and the other in the car park at the entrance to Fetternear Estate. These signs are to inform the public about the Steens, their location and it is now hoped to have them in place by the end of August. When we get a firm date of their installation, we are then hoping to plan a guided walk around the Steens to publicise the boards.
Remember we do need the rain to percolate and fill the bore holes and streams that eventually supply water to our homes and allow the crops to grow.