Happy Potting

1 Goodgymer helped an isolated person in Richmond
Sophie Hopkins
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Richmond

Sunday 5th October

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My first mission took me the other side of Richmond to Barnes and the lovely Ms J.

Ms J started by proudly showing me the brilliant work she had already done with fellow Goodgymer Alan a couple of weeks ago, and how much she had valued his time getting her comfortable getting out in the garden. But her overgrown garden was continuing to cause her some anxiety.

We ended up doing some weeding down the side, including a big budlia that had snuck under the fence from next door, mixing some compost that had been sitting around and causing Ms J stress, and repotting and tidying up the pots that Ms J wanted to get back into taking care of. This included creating a herb pot of parsley, mint and oregano that were scattered in different areas, and repotting some fruit trees that Ms J had planted herself from seed a couple of years ago.

Ms J was really happy to have the compost mixed and ready to use, and enjoyed the worms and wildlife she was encouraging in her garden.



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Hounslow runner

Mon 6th Oct at 5:43pm

Looks brilliant, great job, Sophie!

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