Do you tickle your tomatoes? A good question but we were here for something else. Our task this evening was to weed the vegetable beds at the community garden. There was lots of bindweed and general peskiness to be removed but they were no match for us. Welcome to Jasmine and Martha joining us for the first time this evening. It’s a shorter walk than usual this week so it’s a shorter report 😬

Until next time…

Another beautiful sunny afternoon at the St Werb's Community Farm Gardens was had!

This week we built supports for the newly planted runner beans, rescued some spring onions from some encroaching weeds, planted up some baby chards and watered the heck out of as many beds as we could. Good work everyone!

On a rather drizzly day, Alice and Rich decided that their spirits would not be dampened and headed over to help out at St Werb's Community Farm & Gardens.

Focussing on an area that's new to GoodGym Bristol, we experienced the novel joy of cleaning out their greenhouse guttering with what could only be described as an inbuilt giant flossing device.

After some flossing device repairs and the guttering leaf and gunk free, we moved on to clean one of the polytunnels which had become rather mouldy and green over winter, blocking the light from the lovely spring plantlets growing inside.

For this we had the joy of using another fun scrubbing contraption that was attached to a hose and experienced a decent amount of entertaining hose disasters in the process of getting the polytunnel squeaky clean!

An enjoyable and productive evening had by all - we look forward to further sessions which will be held once per month until September 2023!

It was amazing to see so many faces at the community gardens for the last community mission session of the summer. We weeded, tidied and shoveled the garden into a much better state, ready for the next round of veg planting! Thanks everyone :)

Two people, one hour. Start the stopwatches!

To start with there were a couple of compost heaps that a group of enthusiastic teenagers had filled with all manner of delights from the pond area (that is now clear). We needed to take the bits that weren’t meant to be there and empty them over the back. ✔️

Next was moving some of the lovely compost over to the beds where there were vegetables and empty it after a good water ✔️ ✔️

Finally we needed to build a prickly fence to stop invaders getting in at the back of the garden. A fine barricade was erected. Ouch! Triple ✔️

An hour passed in seemingly no time and we were done.

Until next time…

What do you get when women of strength unite in a good deed? A bag full of potatoes! We started by turning the impressive compost heaps at the farm gardens (the local bird population descended immediately on the opulent dinner), before moving on to weeding planters and paths. Unexpected, Sarah unearthed several nuggets of starchy gold, which sorted us out for dinner. What will we find next month?