Councils have created a mess by rewilding wrongly

PEOPLE have heard the slogan “No Mow May', but took it at face value thinking that the simple act of not mowing would produce a wild flower meadow.

The recent invention of the slogan “No Mow May” is misleading. With the idea that if you don’t mow you will get wild flowers – wrong.

Not mowing may result in an odd wild flower but not many, unless the soil used in the first place was sourced from an area where wild flowers grew. But most modern grass verges do not come from such areas and are sown down with just grass, which smothers all other growth out to produce just grass!

There is no cheap way in creating a wild flower regions.

So what can be done to produce wild flowers? Firstly do not sow simply grass, all you will get is grass! A proper wild flower mixture of UK native wildflowers and meadow grasses blended and carefully formulated to contain the correct species (native to Britain) and proportions to produce a natural wild look.

It’s important to mow your new perennial or mixed meadow regularly in the first year after sowing, to encourage the perennial flowers and grasses to make strong root growth.

Cut to a height of around 2in (5cm) about eight weeks after the seedlings appear, and repeat every two months throughout the first summer.

The following year cut to a height of 3in (7.5cm) do this no later than the end of April.

The main cut should be done around the second week of July. This cut material should be left in place for a few days for the seeds to drop to the ground. Then must be raked up and removed, to help reduce the soils fertility – and not left on the ground thus increasing fertility, a common mistake.

Following these few simple rules and we should soon be looking at highways and byways in their resplendent best and helping to restore natural wildflower habitats for our bees, butterflies, birds and wildlife to produce verges and wild areas to be proud of.

Peter Fawcett,

Author of Gardeners Delight,

Cleckheaton

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This is how the left punish those who voted Brexit

REMEMBER the cover up of the grooming gang scandal in Rotherham? How long did it take for Abu Hamza to be deported? How tough were police on climate fanatics, and how much force was used to suppress the anti-Semitic hate marches?

How many involved with the ethnic minority riots in Harehills were jailed in under a week?

Contrast all of the above to the speed and determination that the self-styled chief prosecutor Keir Starmer is using to suppress the latest uprising by the extreme end of a public that is fed up of mass immigration, both legal and illegal without us ever being consulted on the matter.

Its a striking contrast isn’t it, the very definition of two-tier policing. But I’m not surprised as this is the opportunity the left have been waiting for to punish those they see as responsible for the Brexit vote - the majority of the little people who are not blind to the above questions.

I expect the next move will be to further extinguish free speech and those found in breach of it to be denied the right to vote in future. In a sane world those people would be given a voice in Parliament, one that was listened to and changed policy, but the system ensured they didn’t get it, leading to the inevitable we see being played out.

Dr Scott Marmion,

Woodthorpe,

York

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