Despite uncertain weather Greening Wymondham is plotting ahead.  

EAT is our hope for growing vegetables wherever is possible over Wymondham. The first project, on a sunny back wall behind The White Hart pub just before the Back Lane carpark, is a large self-watering Vegepod  we’ve bought. It will be filled with peat-free compost, seedlings and seeds.

It’s a pilot project called Wymondham Growing Together working with  Wymondham in Bloom. We’ll be discussing planting plans in April - so please come along and contribute your ideas when a date is set. Planting should start in May with robust seedlings and fast-growing seeds. The idea is that people should be able to pick a lettuce, radish or herbs for free – the pub won’t be using them but landlord Kieran Bullen will be advising.  

PRAY is to help get rid of Himalayam Balsam along our rivers and in our gardens. It’s yet another beautiful invasive species brought to Britain in the 19th century. Unfortunately it spreads fast and leaves river banks bare as it dies back, making life increasingly hard for little owls, voles and other riparian mammals and plants.  

In March we’ll be carrying out a basic survey on the Tiffey downstream of Becketswell Bridge to Chapel Lane Bridge. With the help of Norfolk Rivers Trust we may be able to halt its spread.

Now is not the time to spot them since they’ve died back, but come June please email  us if you’ve seen any – if you can safely, lop the flowers off before they seed.  

As for LOVE –  it’s all the green spaces around Wymondham and the town’s parks and pathways. Rothbury Park (pictured) is a surprisingly large park just outside the centre of Wymondham. It could be lovelier, friendlier and much, much greener. The public will be consulted, but if you have any ideas already, email us at greening.wymondham@gmail.com. And do search us out on Facebook.