Free event, get involved in Hollingdean
Growing Hollingdean and Hollingbury Hawks F.C., our Discovering Dewponds (Froglife) team are creating a bog garden pond for wildlife at Hollingdean Park Football Pitch and we’d love some help! All welcome and no prior experience is needed.
Stage 1 – Friday 6th September 2024, 1pm – 5pm, clearing existing vegetation
Thank you to the volunteers who join Will from Froglife to start the bog garden build at Hollingdean Park Football pitch on Friday 6th September. It was a very damp day and spirits where high. Find us Hollingdean Park Football Pitch, Lynchet Close, turn left up the track towards Lower Roedale allotments. What3Words: oasis.candle.torn.
Stage 2 – Monday 9th September 2024, 9am – 4pm, excavation of basin and trench to bed-in liner
While clearing the area the volunteers found, slow worms and a newt.
Stage 3 – Tuesday 10th September 2024, 9am – 4pm, lining bog-garden and beginning to fill with shingle and clay
Stage 4 – Wednesday 11th September 2024, 9am – 4pm, filling bog-garden with shingle and clay
Two big ton bags with shingle and clay to fill the bog garden.
Stage 5 – Thursday 12th September 2024, 11am until 4pm, planting-up bog garden, dead-hedge if materials available.
Stage 6 – Wednesday 2nd October 2024, Contingency workday, completion of dead-hedge.
Create your own bog garden here.
Thank you to Froglife and Hollingbury Hawks Football Club.
We look forward to seeing you.
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