We are always delighted to publish pleas for help like this email from the Chardstock Eco Group! Do send them in!
For those of you who have visited the Chardstock Shop or Community Hall recently, you may have noticed the hive of activity in the creation of the new Community Garden on the site of the old pétanque ‘terrain’. Progress has been rapid and, as project leads on this new community asset, the CEG steering team are very pleased with how it has all developed.
To provide even more opportunity for pollinators, the Parish Council have very kindly enabled CEG to plant up some of the bank directly below the garden leading down to the play park. In order to create a divide on the bank between the play area and this garden extension, we would like to install a dead hedge giving a valuable biodiversity boost to the whole area.
A dead hedge is a natural barrier that provides a wonderful habitat for insects, birds & mammals – hedgehogs would be the absolute dream, 🦔 It will be constructed from natural woody debris laid on the ground between wooden stakes …and this is where you come in!
If you are pruning your garden, please consider contacting us via email if you’d be happy to donate any lengthy woody debris that we could use to build up this natural barrier. Hazel sticks would be especially useful, as they could become perfect stakes. Nothing with thorns though, please, for obvious reasons.
We hope that you may be able to help as the new hedge will be 18 metres long and about 50cm high, so will require a lot of natural material to fill it in. We thank you in advance.
For more information about dead hedges please click on the link below to find out how you could create one in your own garden and the benefits they can bring.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/helping-nature/what-you-can-do/activities/build-a-dead-hedge-for-wildlife
