Another round of weed clearing down at the Berry Maze. A local resident had found out about the volunteering going on and wanted to help, which was lovely to see. After clearing up, Barney dished out some spare raspberry roots for us to take home, which was also lovely.

Cheers for making it out to the session, see you next time I hope!

Fresh from our path clearing at Northern Slopes, we met Rich and Darren at the maze, where we set out to clear the grass ways and rear paths from weeds.

Thanks for coming along everyone!

A lovely day for berry maze maintenance, one major discovery was the bright yellow spiders that matched the colour of the delicious and coveted yellow raspberries. made me think twice before stuffing my face!

Otherwise another successful session clearing out the maze. thanks everyone!

A plethora of jobs awaited us on our arrival at the Berry Maze. You like edging, hey we’ve got a tool just for you. You like to mow lawns, you’re in luck my friend, you really like to get bindweed, also yes. Time to choose…

I worked with Douglas, who joined us for the first time today, with the edging of the maze, whilst Emma our resident lawn expert cut the lawn with aplomb. Frances the Queen of Bindweed removed copious amounts of bindweed delighting in what were admittedly stupendous roots being extracted.

After an hour we called time and headed to our next task (after sampling all the berries of course).

Until next time…

P.s. If anyone reads this then let me know and I’ll buy you a cookie or cake of your choice.

As if we hadn't had enough mowing up at the northern slopes just before, we arrived to find that the Berry Maze needed a mow too. Emma was right on it, as expected!

There was a few slightly different jobs this time, as Janka was given a big smashy tool and set free on the rubble around the mosaic, ready for a fresh skirt soon. Some posts had been knocked down by the wind, or teenagers, or windy teenagers. Either way, it didn't take us long to put some fresh posts in.

Frances, Alex, and his partner also tackled some of the weeds, and we all helped ourselves to the first few berries of the season.

Thanks for coming along! Can't wait to see how many berries have grown next visit!

This month was a bit special at the Berry Maze, as it was time for the annual Get Growing Trail in Bristol. this is a great opportunity for community gardens to get placed on the map and lure more volunteers out into green spaces. Which worked quote well as one of the locals came to help, bringing one of the cutest doggos ever.(who got in the way a lot, but hard to stat mad at such an adorable thing!)

Despite animal distractions, we all managed to clear a tremendous amount of weeds, with special mention to Emma, who did a fantastic job of pulling the hogweed out by the roots. also extra thanks to Dave for being the photographer after my phone crashed. excuse his squinting, it was very very sunny!

Thanks for coming along everyone! back to the usual ti.e next month, see you there!