Sheila was the sole sign-up for today's allotment session, so got straight to work. The water butts were filled from the long hose to the tap while I got on with other jobs. I potted up 2 globe artichokes, pinched out the side shoots from the tomatoes, and did some general weeding. The full water butts will be available for the volunteers coming in to water during next week's predicted dry spell

Sarah and Sheila joined Taskowner Sue at the Community Allotment. All the rain we've had this week has meant there wasn't much watering to do, so today it was all about planting. We planted leeks, parsnips, parsley, lemon balm, spinach, comfrey and alpine strawberries, and Sarah also did some weeding. We look forward to seeing the fruits of our labours!

Sol, Georgeta and Sheila joined taskowner Sue at the Community Allotment. Not surprisingly lots of watering was required, which Georgeta and Sheila took on, whilst setting the hose to fill up the water butts. Meanwhile Sol took on the heroic task of emptying the bags of horse manure into the manure bay. The hot weather meant they were extremely stinky! Sol and Sue then planted some tomatoes in soil and some more-mature manure, and followed up with planting some spare raspberry canes. A good evening's work!

Sarah and Sheila took on watering at the allotment on the hottest day of the year so far. We filled the water butts, whilst filling our watering cans and giving all those thirsty fruit and veg a good old drink

Rosie and Sol joined Sue at the community allotment for the next batch of tasks.

this time we emptied two large vegetable beds of previous soil and filled up with the fresh soil and horse manure.

Afterwards we planted tomatoes from their seed beds into larger pots.

Fluffy, the local robin, kept an eye on us, and we rewarded him with may-beetle worms. lot of protein for him.

Five GoodGymers met at the community allotment on a sunny evening to help with some jobs, joining taskowner Sue. Georgeta took on the task of doing all the watering, both in the greenhouse and all the beds outside. The rest of the team constructed a structure from canes to support the climbing beans. Then came the exciting bit of planting the beans, with Sol demonstrating her special technique for tying in the beans. All whilst being watched by the distinctive Robin with ruffled feathers, who took the opportunity to feast on some tasty treats from the disturbed earth. A great job by Georgeta, Rachel, Sol, Meggie and Sheila to get their weekends off to a great start