We've soiled ourselves

Despite the early signs of rain, three GoodGymers: Claire, Sam and Tilly mustered the energy to come out and help out at Thorlands.

With Spring meaning a mixture of rain and sunshine, lots and lots of things were growing all over the place.

Simon gave us the choice of two tasks, but since Tilly had been promised to plant Hazel trees a few weeks ago, we opted for this.

Yet, there was some digging out bindweed roots and turning over the soil that needed to be done first. We wanted to ensure the bindweed would not grow again and thus, we opted to spend the majority of the session ploughing the soil with the mattock and the new Dutch hoe (no, there wasn't an extra volunteer...it was a new tool).

Finally, we spent the last few minutes putting down the cardboard before dragging across a small tonne bag of top soil to put on top. Unfortunately, we could not get to the task of planting the Hazel trees, but this will be done on Wednesday during the group run - until then!