No Poddington Peas at the Bottom of the Garden

5 Goodgymers helped their local community in Brighton
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Brighton

Tuesday 29th March 2022

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Spring is officially here, and after a beautifully sunny weekend and it being the end of March, we got a little taste of April showers.

Tonight we ran to Natal Road Allotments to meet Heidi and Sally from the Moulsecoomb Allotment and Horticultural Society. Part of the allotment has become a dumping ground for all sorts of garden and household waste.

Five Brighton Goodgymers braved the nettles to scratch the surface of the rubbish mound. There was no official fitness tonight however, we managed cross overs with a pick axe, overhead weights lifting a corrugated sheet and a tug of war with several garden hoses!

Though there is still a mound to takle the shear amount of bags shows how much was cleared and sorted in an hour before the light started to fade.

We'll be heading back in about a month to help Heidi and Sally with another go at that rubbish mound!

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Moulsecoomb Estate Allotment site shop
We are a not-for profit shop run by volunteers to sell horticultural supplies to plot-holders.

We run the shop on site so that during opening hours at weekends, allotmenteers on the site can buy plant foods, sacks of manure and growing medium, bean poles, seeds, onion sets etc. Most of our plot-holders (including us) do not have a car. Selling these supplies on site at very little above cost price helps the allotmenteers to grow food, and the hut is also a place where people exchange information, ideas and advice. Our bulk deliveries arrive two or three times a year, always early on a Wednesday morning, The younger plot-holders, whom we might be able to rope in,are mostly at work on a weekday morning. We older shop volunteers are finding it increasingly difficult to handle quantities of bulky and heavy sacks off the lorry and into our storage shed. If you could help us, I would aim for a next delivery in April. No equipment is needed, just more muscle and energy than some of us have these days !

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