The rain was no big dill!

Is it on? Is it off? Has Dennis had the last word? Heavens No! 3 GoodGymmers defied the storm and ventured out on a very very wet Sunday morning.

After problems with transport and some running and walking from different boroughs , these tourists finally met up at Kingston Edible Forest - a community orchard and group allotment since 1992, they harvest from trees planted in the past, and plant for the future. There is an acre of fruit, nuts, shrubs and bushes and veg arranged as natural woodland. They also have a couple of ducks on a pond for eggs, a polytunnel, tree nursery and propagate apple trees for schools - bascially they do and grow so wonderful things and it was great to be able to help them out today!

We were very grateful to spend our mission today in the Edible Forest's polytunnel that housed many fruit and veg plants. We even played a game of "name that plant" where Naomi was the star player naming almost ever plant she saw just by looking at it, she only missed the dill , which was in fact fennel - a hidden talent Naomi , well done!

We weren't just pondering over grapes and chard we promise, we did some work too, we tightened all the bubble wrap around the polytunnel so that it could avoid getting condensation - who knew bubble wrap could help with that! In doing so we learnt how to tie a complicated (well I thought so) bow knot! We then watered all the plants and sieved some soil ready for future planting and got to plant some beetroot too. And we did it all while playing a game of twister! That's right, the polytunnel was quite small and we could only stand on a tiny path of bricks , let's just say a few toes were trodden on!

To finish we all shared some pineapple mint tea grown in the garden to warm us up so we were ready to fight the elements on the journey home

Thank you for braving the weather today GoodGymmers, great work!