We made great progress this afternoon tidying up the beds and planting a few new plants at Holgate Community Garden. We welcomed Joss and Rebecca to their first Goodgym task. Leanne kindly brought a puncture repair kit so Leanne and David started by mending the puncture in the wheelbarrow tyre which made it a lot easier to dispose of the weeds once we'd pulled them out. Everyone else got to work weeding the beds and pulling out the cornflowers that had died and Joss trimmed along the edges. Amy planted some celeriac seedlings once we had space for them. By the end the beds looked much tidier and there was much more room for the vegetable plants and flowers to grow.

Thanks to a local resident putting a hose over his wall we were able to keep a continuous flow of watering cans and buckets going to and fro and in an hour we had given everything in the beds a good drink. We also planted the last squash and courgette plants and removed a diseased honeysuckle.

We joined local residents to help them stay on top of the spring growth in the community garden. David weeded the bed ready for planting the squash and courgette plants that have been growing on windowsills for the past month. Becca trimmed the grass around the edges of the long bed and weeded the long bed along with Cara. Laura searched for brambles to evict as well as weeding. After an hour the garden looked a lot tidier and the vegetable plants were all in their new homes in the raised beds.

Five of us helped out at Holgate Community Garden's spring planting session. Jane prepared one of the beds and planted the sweet peas, spring onions and sunflower seeds. Cara and James weeded and the long bed around the mosaic and planted the two new rose bushes in the space. David dug in the bean poles and planted the broad beans and then moved the donated compost bins into place as new leaf bins in the basket ball court. Laura weeded and trimmed around the beds and coordinated the planting. There was also lavender, sage and strawberry plants planted and courgette and squash seeds planted in pots to go on windowsills until the summer. We didn't finish the areas to sow the marigold and cornflowers so these will be done in the May session.

We had the final session of helping prepare the beds at Holgate Community garden ready for planting at the April community gardening together session. Amy and Laura finished weeding the long bed while David dug the compost added on Monday into the raised beds. We were joined by a member of the Community Garden group and a local family. It was great to see the daffodils starting to come out as well as the snowdrops.

It was a tale of two tasks tonight, but also a tale of 2 races as we celebrated the weekends activities, with some runners taking on the High Cup Nick Fell Race and another group tackling the brutal winds at the Snake Lane 10miler. Well done to everyone who took part, especially Amy who scored a new PB 🥳

We numbered off by naming our alternative career choices and it's pretty safe to say we're all eagerly anticipating the release of Rich's debut pop album with Paul Kelly on guitar and Leanne as a backing dancer the live shows! 🎤

We then split off into two groups with Vicky's heading to Holgate Community Garden and Ed's going to the King's Path.

At Holgate Community Garden the majority of the team got stuck into some weeding of the flower beds whilst a few others were tackling compost bins.

After a successful session the group got into pairs for a fitness session which involved one person running up a hill whilst the other completed some exercise, swapping over each time.

Over at the King's Path the group was tasked with digging up some unwanted trees from round the corner and then transported then over to the King's Path area to be replanted Cue an awful lot of innuendo involving holes and wood!

The task was satisfyingly completed on time, and we're all eager to see how the trees get on in their new homes.

The group then headed back to CVS in an indian-file skipping line (who knew how knackering it would be to skip for that long!) before then switching it up to sprints, with Matt in particular exhibiting his speediness to give us all some extra motivation

The two groups then met back up at CVS for some stretches and some lovely lemon cake courtesy of Pete's mummy! 🍰