The Friends of Seckar Wood are a committed band of volunteers who help look after the various special habitats on this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Woolley, south of Wakefield.
Today's task was "balsam bashing". Another invasive non-native plant that rapidly colonises riverbanks and damp woodlands (Seckar falling under the latter category) where it shades out the native ground flora.
It's a very shallow rooted annual plant which makes pulling it up very easy, so perhaps balsam pulling would be a better way to describe it. The pulling must be done before the plant flowers and sets seed.
Despite being small in number we got a good area cleared today. The idea being that repeating the same area over 2-3 years should eradicate the plant from that areas.
We also put up a couple of my home made bird boxes on trees in the woodland too so something else to keep an eye on when we visit.
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