Today was the last day tackling the Giant Hogweed for Cromarty Fisheries Project on a site near Milton. A combination of brute force severing tap roots and selective spraying with glycosate should knock out three generations ...
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Corbett Centre garden
Again the industrious Merkinch Green Gym are far from beating about the bush clearing a very overgrown garden at the Corbett Centre, Inverness.
John, James and Ivor skillfully prune the most unruly shrub.
Our ...
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REAL Project Veg patch
The Merkinch (Inverness) Green Gym had a fruitful/vegful day preparing ground and planting out seedlings at the REAL allotment site at Inverness High School.
Morag was very grateful of the hard work raking the ground, ...
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Maryburgh Community Garden
The community garden was in a bit of a state before Dingwall Green Gym started to get to work on it. The despite the train runing very close to the garden it is a very sheltered spot next to the old toll house over the River ...
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The Battle against Giant Hogweed!
On Tuesday and Wednesday last week four new volunteer officers joined the regular team to tackle the infestation of Heracleum mantegazzianum aka Giant Hogweed. We were kitted out in visors and protective gloves due to its ...
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