Lots more tidying so paths are clearer and weed seeds less able to spread around

100% walking group this week, with a soggy meet-up but much drier session.

Walking means more chat which means many, many more tangential voyages of language and knowledge and also less time at the task so everyone grabbed tools at the Burial Ground which had turned very tall and green with fresh growth of nettles and brambles. Which were all really quite soggy.

By the time we finished up, the path in was much more accessible and we found some ripened brambles to help us build up a need for cake as we celebrated Ed's 100th good deed with a Slinky caterpillar cake that only seemed to cut into HUGE slices - which was convenient!

Cooler weather and the Battle of the Sages was on! The first bed to be tackled, the Jerusalem Sage grows in abundance in the Cemetery Gardens, treated as a weed to try to control the amount of the plant to only those areas where it's wanted.

The beautiful yellow UFO flowers have given way to the ominously rattling seedheads, so it's time for them to go! Much chopping, as well as sticky bud and grass seed gathering plus a bonus bindweed bagging, the flower bed was soon looking thoroughly trampled and the pile of green waste for the gardeners to collect was HUGE!