Buddleia bashing & rebellious roots

After a super session on Wednesday night with the GoodGym Southwark group run crew, Simon was pleased to see the results in the broad day of light. Yet, there's still plenty to do as the Thorlands Garden project continues!

Six GoodGymers, including Leila's first ever good deed, came together to tackle two vital objectives of the afternoon - the never-ending buddleia trees and more roots.

Nathan has a soft spot for the mattock, so we gave him the right to use it to dig out the roots. However, this time, he did show Ema how to use the tool and was happy to share as they dug out more bramble roots.

The rest of us were on the buddleia bashing and chopping team. Michael proved handy with the loppers as he shaped the buddleia tree to look similar to the tree near the "Kitchen" garden whilst Leila, Tilly and Sam used a technique of secateurs and brute force by hand to chop the big branches into smaller and more managable stems for the compost heap.

Even though we only had two simple tasks, the hour and a half went by in a flash as we got to know Leila and find out about our New's Year resolutions. We're back again next Saturday for more root digging, sawing and we will be transferring six trees to be saved whilst we overhaul the "Forest" garden.