Haringey

Group run

MULCH MORE AT LONDON GROWN

13 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in Haringey.

  • Becky Greenwood
  • Patrick Luong
  • Varon Lewis
  • Pennie Varvarides
  • Haringey runner
  • Pandora
  • Lambeth runner
  • Holly Goswell
  • Shellface
  • Camille
  • Sophie Ghiggino
  • Catherine Tucker-Feltham
  • Eleanor
 
Saturday, 11th of March 2017
 
Led by Pennie Varvarides

Today's mission was a welcomed return to London Grown to continue turning the ground and preparing the patching for planting. We were joined by SIX GG newbies! Give them all a cheer: Camille, Eleanor, Holly, Michelle, Sophie and Catherine.

As always, Patrick provided the tunes.

The weather was much nicer this time round. No frozen mud of fingers today! Continuing on from our last visit, the team quickly turned the soil and pulled all the brambles – dispite much resistance. After an hour of hard slog we had a short burpee and biscuit break before getting back to work. I'm on a mission to convince everybody they actually love burpees.

We then split up to cover more ground. Some folks were de-taping and de-stapling cardboard, others were transporting cardboard, others were laying cardboard and others were shovelling and moving compost. London Grown has quite the compost pile donated from the council, thanks to everyone filling their green bins. So anyone doing their own gardening at home should always remember to pop the green rubbish in the green bin.

In the end we managed to turn the whole patch and lay cardboard over half, covering it in compost. As the clock struck 12 the team was gathered back at the front cleaning off their tools and saying their goodbyes.

This week's (travelling) Barnet Biscuit was the trusty chocolate bourbon. Biscuits are quite the tradition in Barnet.

Thanks for all your hard work team. You smashed it! And well done to those of you who remembered your docs for DBS checks. Remember you can always bring those along to any group runs for checking.

See you soon! Pennie


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