Himalayan Balsam 2010
Site 1
Aerial Photo(2005) of Site 1
The above photo is aligned, North to the top of page. The red outline is the approx boundary of work. The eastern limit follows the drainage ditch of the lower field.
Detail of Site 1
The letters are in the order that the site is being cleared.
The red line is the track between the upper field and the lower fen meadow.
The double 'yellow and green' lines are the western and eastern boundaries, respectively, of the drainage ditch separating the upper field and the fen meadow.
Sites 3 to 6
Map of Sites 3 to 6(2008)
Aerial Photo(2005) of Sites 3 to 6(2010)
Site 3 is extended a)to include the track leading north b) to cover the land between the bund and the drainage ditch, and c) to includes land belonging to Trekensa Gardens where it adjoins a) on it's western boundary and the SSSI on it's southern boundary
Site 4 is extended to about 30m to the west of the north-south bund.
October:
- 8th October: Cleared all of Site 1. (Collected only 185 plants)
- 8th October: Cleared Sites 3,6 and the top edge of 4 and 5. (78 plants)
- 25th October: Haven't checked since I've been away. Hoping the frost killed the remaining stragglers. May check tomorrow if it doesn't rain, else that's it for this year. Still intend to update the map of site 1 to show the area of the flood plain that was cleared.
Pages are {Oct,Sep,Aug,Jul,Jun}
Arsenic
Just a starter.
After reading about arsenic poisoning from ground water, I'm expanding info on contamination and possible uptake in foods.
Dear Oh! Deer
Just to say the deer are marauding. The day I went to town last week I returned to find they had eaten the hearts out of 7 fully grown lettuce and eaten the fruit and leaves of some 20 strawberry plants.
As if I didn't get the message on Sat 12th I went to the village to help with some computer issues, which I failed to resolve, only to find on my return that 12 perfectly good lettuce had been yomped again.
EDIT
Well twice more, today 19th being the latest.
I am not keen on fencing and will have to make my presence noted some other way.
The proper action is to just be here, but 24/7/52 is not going to happen.
So the alternatives are:
- Pee on trees to leave a 'mark'
- Hang a few shiny items from the trees, like old CDs to annoy they
- Place a few twigs in strategic places to make things a bit difficult in places
- Install some infra-red sensor to enable a sound and/or visual disturbance
Well some day, anyway. 
Update: 11th June 2011
The deer ate through most of my leeks, some hundred or more, so this winter/spring I did do a rough fence. Still over the last few weeks most of my lettuce 20+ have been eaten along with the 90% of chard and spinach and some bean tops.
Will add to the fencing and consider electronic proximity alarm
