Strim before a swim!

Yesterday evening after our busy days at work, Simon, Alison and Emily made their way to meet head gardener Dom at Mildmay Community Centre for about an hour of garden clear-up. The Mildmay is an incredible hub of activity just located off Newington Green- it is also a listed Passiv Haus, a completely carbon neutral building for the local neighbourhood. There is even a recording studio downstairs, where members of The Noisettes were actually rehearsing as we were gardening!

We began with some weed whacking with an electric driven strimmer, while keeping our distance from other Goodgymmers. This certainly helped to clear a lot of the immediate grass and undergrowth, but some of the bushes and brambles proved to be heavy going. Luckily, we also had some rakes and forks available to assist with shifting the green waste off these steep sloped gardens.

Unfortunately, after about half an hour of gardening, the heavens opened, and we deemed that it would have been dangerous for us to continue working on a slippery wet slope, and definitely not good for electrical strimming! We packed up our progress, and bagged the weeds we had collected before calling it a night. Top stuff, folks!

We will return next Friday evening (same time, same place- 6pm) to help with some more garden clear ups!

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