Too Mulch for this Dutch Hoe

Alice, Rebecca and Sam met up Simon at Thorlands for another weekly session and a continuation of the overall vision and project. It was Rebecca's first ever GoodGym, so we welcomed her with the background of Thorlands, where it is now and where we want it to go. Welcome again, Rebecca! Glad to have you come along to your first GoodGym session.

Sam has been collecting cardboard, but he forgot to bring the masses of boxes he has accumulated. However, he arrived early and searched around the "Walled" Garden and found a few older pieces that Simon had collected as Sam wanted to use this session to put down more cardboard and leaf mulch to keep on renewing the soil in the "Forest" garden ensuring that we stay on top of the weeds. Firstly, we had to use the dutch hoe and mattock to dig up the soil and ensure we got all the roots out and afterwards raked the area to make it flat before the cardboard could be put down and leaf mulch on top of that.

By the end of the session, we had put down a couple cardboards and leaf mulch near the Hazel trees. Yet, there's more area to be covered. Simon had provided Alice and Sam with a goodie bag of harvested salad leafs to take home as Rebecca was heading off to Spain.

Next time, we should be getting woodchip to start putting down a woodchip path in the "Kitchen" garden.