August 19th Work Party

Another month and another work party.  Thanks to all the volunteers that showed up to pull himalayan blackberry (R. armeniacus) from the site.  Also I great big thanks to the City of SeaTac Parks Department for giving us a head start by mowing a large part of the site!

The mowing allowed us to get right to digging out the root balls, and laying some cardboard and mulch.  Stewards were also onsite doing some herbicide treatments on the English holly, Cherry laurel, and Black locust stumps.  Frilling was done on the stumps of these species to prevent further new growth from spawning from the stump and near by soil.

Two volunteers clearing root balls

All told we were able to treat over twenty stumps and clear/mulch 400 square feet.

Cleared and mulched area

Hoping for even more volunteers to help finish up the last of the clearing so that we can get to the fun part and begin planting this October.  If you, or anyone you know, wants to volunteer your time please contact the Stewards at seatacstewards@gmail.com. We will be having another work party on September 20th at 9 AM.