Well it was an hedgucation for me tonight as it was my first time leading a group run without Mark's supervision but luckily I had 12 awesome GoodGymmers to rely on for moral support. After a run down of our favourite ice creams (why do other countries always have cooler flavours than the UK?!) we made our way to Alexandra Recreation Ground to meet Linda and the other Friends of the Parks volunteers.

Big shout out to Hannah for leading the walking group, Stephen for backmarking the runners and Jing who was attending her first session and bravely accepted the challenge of running the long way round up the hill to the task!

Once we got to the park, Gill and Linda had us pulling out weeds that were diverting nutrients from the hedge saplings planted earlier in the year. Many hands made light work of this task and we had cleared most of the bed within 40 minutes before taking the shorter route back to the Bridge House for some post-run stretches.

Nice work team!

Myself and Kelly met up with Viv and the team of dedicated local gardeners for the regular third Saturday of the month meet up at the Silverdale planters. 🌱

After lots of sun on Friday, the plants were super thirsty. So we set to work giving the plants some much needed watering.☀️

Then we moved on to tackle some weed maintenance. Pulling out the weeds to give the plants room to thrive.

We finished off with a quick litter pick, whilst a few volunteers took on the task of tackling some dead branches that were blocking the path, giving the area a thorough tidy-up. All in time to finish up before the brief showers arrived! 🌧️

I met Lumin, and a group of local gardeners to tackle some weeding and planting on Saturday morning. We managed to time it perfectly between the rain showers!

Today’s task included planting locally donated sunflowers and roses. And the usual weed pulling and litter pick.

This month’s gardening tip I picked up from Lumin; to keep slugs and snails off your sunflowers apply some Vaseline to the base. They don’t like the sliding around!

We will be returning next month to see how the new sunflowers and roses are getting on. 🌻 🌹 🌱

A fabulous 5 of us this eve helped out at the lovely Dacres Wood nature reserve. There are some parts open to the public, including some lovely cobbled paths. Unfortunately it was weed central between the stones but luckily we had some miniature scythe/weeder things which were very useful. And John had kindly thought to bring along some cardboard for our knees!

We each tackled a small area before Nick came past with the brush. By the time we were finished it was looking great and much tidier. We'll be back I'm sure...

Top job & jog everyone.

A bit of a humid one this evening, half of us met at the Bridge House for some favourite letters (S, T, O, O & D - in case you were wondering) and running, and half met at the task.

This evening we were helping out in Cator Park where the willow arch was weeping a bit, so we refreshed it with some water from the stream.

Sarah and Linda did some expert bucket chucking to scoop out water and deposit it into vessels that some of us fed to the willow arch and other beds.

Meanwhile Stephen & Shauna were mulching one of the beds with some woodchip.

Ace work, team 👍

We met Viv, Lumin and their team of dedicated local gardeners to tackle some weeding and planting.

The planters were in full bloom and we are seeing results from the previous bulb planting!

We split into groups to make the most of our hour-long session. Some of us got straight to work tugging out the weeds. Others focused on planting as there were locally donated plants waiting to find a home. A few volunteers took on the task of trimming back the overgrown plants, and seeking out any litter - giving the beds a tidy up.

Today’s best gardening tip from super gardener Lumin: ‘thriller, filler and spiller are everything you need for the perfect planter.’

Thrillers: Tall show stopping plants Fillers: The backing dancers of the planter world Spillers: Something that loves to beautifully drape over the sides

We will be returning next month to keep up the good work - please pop along! 🌱🌞

Tonight's session was a Tiny Forest sandwich with two lovely jogs either side.

We kicked off at The Bridge House. Everyone took a guess at the number of people who signed up for the London Marathon this year. 840,000. Molly won. That's more than 1% of the UK population which is a crazy statistic.

Anyway, next up we split in two. Cat led a longer run and we all congregated at the Tiny Forest in Cator Park.

It was looking pretty well mulched but Millie assured us it needed more.

The mulch pile was a fair distance away, so we took turns wheeling and filling up with the good stuff.

I'll be bark.

After a good 45 mins we'd covered half the Tiny Forest and left a decent pile for the other half of the trees. We might even be back to spread a little more next week. We'll see.

Nice job, team! And shout-out to Sarah for joining the Bromley crew for the first time 🙌