The Hungry Canes

10 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Laura Barrett
Leanne
Cara Organ
Ally North
Sarah Moore
Lizzie Kershaw
Mitch
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York

Saturday 13th November 2021

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Ten GG Yorkies met Steve the school caretaker at Clifton Green Primary School on a surprisingly mild afternoon for mid November. Steve gathered all the available tools (including a powerful looking strimmer which unfortunately we didn't need) and showed us where the rasperry canes were, at the side of a playing field at the back of the school. Ally shared her horticultual knowledge and advised us which canes should be taken back down to ground level (the dead-looking, twiggy ones) and which ones should just be trimmed (the ones that still had leaves and/or fruit). Barbara and Nick trimmed a spiky hawthorn hedge on the other side of the playing field and Nick bravely carried the pile of cuttings across the field to the large bin (luckily he had very thick gloves). He also did some impressive compacting by jumping on top of the cuttings in the waste bin. Laura got stuck in weeding in between the canes as well and soon, after much eating of raspberries (mostly Egg and Sarah - they must have been hungry!), the raspberry canes looked a lot neater and tidier. Hopefully this will mean the school children have a wonderful crop of raspberries next year!


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Clifton Green Primary
Pruning the greens

We are a primary School in Kingsway North Clifton. We would like some help with pruning fruit trees, raspberry canes and taming some of our hedges.

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Sat 13th Nov 2021 at 6:44pm

That was our lunch!

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It will make it much easier for the next person who takes on this plot to successfully grow food next year

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