Gardening gang gets to work in Titchfield (From Daily Echo)
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Gardening gang gets to work in Titchfield
6:00am Wednesday 20th January 2010 in
A GREEN-fingered team of Hampshire gardeners has spent 130 hours beautifying an overgrown piece of land.
Members of the Titchfield Gardener’s Club had to dig the soil over four times and take more 60 bags of waste to the tip before shrubs could be planted on Gardner Hill.
The group was given £426 towards materials by Fareham Borough Council.
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Brite Spark
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10:29am Wed 20 Jan 10
alabaster wrote:"Fruit Cake" would be closer to the mark.
Excellent, gorilla gardening, but they could plant some fruit trees too. Imagine, every little square of land cleaned up by volunteer gardeners, and with lots of free fruit.
Andy Locks Heath
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10:32am Wed 20 Jan 10
King Mush
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1:51pm Wed 20 Jan 10
Andy Locks Heath wrote:Spot on - we need a bit of 'people power' in many ways. This just shows that a few worthy types can do something positive and help build a real 'commnity' This can then overspill into showing a stret presence and scare off the anti-social idiots or opportunist criminals plus door-knocking con-men who want to rip you off with their scam 'landscape gardening' etc
Agreed Alabaster. If anyone wants to do something about an area near to them the councils run schemes to offer help to any small groups of residents who want to help themselves to improve their own neighbourhood if they can organise themselves. It's worth a phone call. Well maintained areas tend to reduce vandalism and anti social behaviour. I do a bit of litter picking and scrub clearance round the local area and it does make a difference. The council will provide gloves, bags and so on and also collect the rubbish by arrangement.
Good story - let's hope it spreads
King Mush
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1:54pm Wed 20 Jan 10
"A GREEN-fingered team of Hampshire gardeners has spent 130 hours beautifying an overgrown piece of land."
Maybe followed by another headline:
" A light fingered team of travelling gardeners has spent 130 minutes ruining a grassed area by pitching up their temporary mobile 'offices'
Andy Locks Heath
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3:05pm Wed 20 Jan 10
King Mush wrote:Funny and also sadly true.
PS
"A GREEN-fingered team of Hampshire gardeners has spent 130 hours beautifying an overgrown piece of land."
Maybe followed by another headline:
" A light fingered team of travelling gardeners has spent 130 minutes ruining a grassed area by pitching up their temporary mobile 'offices'
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alabaster says...
9:41am Wed 20 Jan 10