To the 'Stripper' End

After the downpour and blowy gusts of Tuesday, it was a pleasant change to meet for the first time on a Thursday for our task. The sun was out (even if still a bit nippy) and we were raring to go.

Just a short hop from the start location, the walkers left first whilst the rest waited until 18:30 for everyone. Then the joggers headed off, just a hop, strip and a jump to the task. A much longer day of volunteering tonight, but it would be well worth it - with a whopping 50 minutes of digging.

We were back outside the Riverside Medical Centre, to help on their community garden which is led by Grow Cardiff. The last time we were here was back in January 2022 when we helped to fill their very first - and at the time only raised bed.

What a change

Now with some much new growing space, it really was an oasis of a garden just brilliant for people to get some time to relax and unwind. But that's enough time looking at pretty things, we are here to complete a task!

Today we were going to be laying some wildflower turf, but there was 'prep' work to get done first. So we rolled it out in position, then cut around it with an edging tool, moved the turf back out of the way. Now came the spades, we had to remove the grass that already there so that we could finally put the turf in it's new home.

We got into teams and got down and dirty whilst 'Joined at the strip'. A team removed the old turf in a wheelbarrow as it came flying from all around.

And finally, we were done.