Two Goodgymmers joined the Stoke Newington Common volunteers to help bed in some young trees. While new saplings were planted around the common, Dan and Anne helped load up wheel barrows of mulch and spread it around the base of the young trees planted last year. Once that task was complete, this year's trees were ready for their mulch too. In what felt like no time at all, Stoke Newington Common and most importantly the base of a good ten young trees, were covered in little 'mulch doughnuts' keeping the weeds out and the moisture in.

The final Baby tree watering session of the summer as Autumn closes in fast and the extra water less vital.

We filled the bottles and gave all the young trees a really good drink to celebrate a great growing summer for them!

finishing off by showing the shrubs on the mound a bit of love to complete the productive session!!

Great to have Heidi along for bit double Good Deeding fun!!

flying around Stoke Newington common watering the baby trees and pulling along the watering cart up the big bad hill.

Top effort and super efficient GoodGyming as as soon as we had finished we ran up Church Street to Clissold Park and round 2 of Gym Gym fun.

Young plants need regular watering, especially in this late summer heat. So Alice and David joined Bernie and her fellow local residents, carrying water to the various young shrubs and trees planted on and nearby Stoke Newington Common. It's a task that allowed plenty of time to chat within the group as we carried and watered. Activity and social interaction - an unbeatable combination. Now I'm off for a pint myself.......

A lovely evening to be doing a speedy Tree watering route around Stoke Newington Common!

Keeping the baby trees hydrated for the hot and dry weather ahead! we filled, pulled and poured 1000 liters of water around the common for an efficient 60 minutes of GoodGym action!!

On a Sunday morning, with definitely a little bit of spring in the air, a group of 10 GoodGymers headed up to Stoke Newington Common. With Stoke Newington Common Users Group and our friends at Tree Musketeers we'd be helping with a spot of hedge construction.

We started with a detailed briefing, that taught us the benefits of hedges having different levels (fewer things getting shaded out), the creatures that would benefit (foxes, slow worms and - ideally - hedgehogs) and the value of the adjoining railway sidings as a nature corridor.

Then it was straight to the job, using an array of secateurs, loppers and saws to cut back the trees and shrubs that made up the hedge, and using the cuttings to build up a dead hedge.

After an hour and a half we'd made a very visible impression on the hedge, helping improve biodiversity in this little corner of Hackney.