Workforce Groen works each season to take care of the absolute best high quality of life by way of flora, fauna, roads and sidewalks. We’re blissful to offer you an inside take a look at all of the actions. With summer season simply across the nook, we are going to take you thru the interval of excessive temperatures and further watering.
Summer season is a interval when every thing inexperienced grows lots. Though there are generally weeks of dry climate, it stays a season wherein weeds develop in all instructions, shrubs grasp over and grass grows rapidly. The primary focus for Workforce Inexperienced is due to this fact hoeing and pruning; ‘protecting nature in test’. “In autumn and winter it’s much less noticeable if you don’t prune a shrub, however in summer season that’s completely not an possibility,” says Groen coordinator Harry van Langen.
Extra usually by way of the neighborhood
Summer season is a difficult interval. It’s the busiest interval of the yr for Groen, however as a result of summer season holidays and the warmth, it is usually probably the most understaffed interval of the yr. “The frequency of the work is excessive. The trick is to go to recurrently. The important thing to success is to not give weeds the possibility to develop too tall, so you possibly can end quicker and transfer on to the following job. However colleagues from Workforce Groen additionally go on vacation. So we’ve to do extra work, with fewer folks.”
Excessive temperatures
Peaks in excessive temperatures are the time to hoe. “When it is vitally sizzling, it’s best to hoe as a result of the weeds then dry out quicker,” says Harry. As well as, the soccer fields have to be equipped with water to stop them from drying out. For this goal, water is pumped from the ditch with a pump and sprayed over the sector with two reels. All fields are irrigated in a single week.
“So in sizzling climate we really need to be in two locations without delay; for hoeing and watering. And that with fewer colleagues.” It’s definitely a problem. That’s the reason Workforce Groen hopes that residents will even need to correctly prune the overhanging greenery of their very own backyard.
Occasions and sports activities fields
In the summertime, Workforce Groen additionally gives help across the gala’s, reminiscent of fencing and accumulating waste. As well as, the occasion space is continually stored tidy for summer season occasions. Because of this the paths stay satisfactory and the grass quick and wholesome. There’s additionally all the time a earlier than and after evaluation with Inexperienced at an occasion. It’s the duty of the group to go away it tidy, however that is certainly checked with the municipality.
Main upkeep of the sports activities fields can also be mentioned. The fields are ready by Groen for the approaching competitions. Potholes are stuffed and holes are poked within the area and seeds are planted.
In summer season it’s all the time time for (preventive) management of the oak processionary caterpillar. Particular traps are hung with attractant in order that moths are caught in order that they’ll not develop into oak processionary caterpillars.
Management and notifications
Do you expertise nuisance resulting from public inexperienced areas? Then you possibly can report it through www.opmeer.nl/buurtmelding-doorgeven or name the city corridor at 0226-363 333.
