Despite a few blustery showers to begin with, we were lucky with another sunny day for garden volunteering down at
Cordwainers Garden.
Teams of people got stuck in with various different tasks including
bagging up soil, clearing and planting a new bed, cutting kindling with
an axe, weeding rogue areas, collecting leaves for leafmould, patching
up the shed and clearing out and re-arranging the composting corner.
Fuelled by an almost continuous supply of tea from the storm-kettle
(powered by wood) and a delicious spread from
Cafe Morningside
we got a huge amount done. We even dug up and relocated an enormous
Calla Lily which had planted itself rather annoyingly in the dye bed.
It was great to have a mix of old and new faces at the garden, to share
some of the heavy lifting and chat about Starwars and science fiction
(!) over lunch. Thanks to all our hardworking volunteers, the garden has
been given a new lease of life as it braces itself for the cold months
ahead.
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| First volunteer of the day, a huge worm |
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| The rains clears and the sun comes out to warm us up |
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| Duncan gets to work on patching up the pallet shed |
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| Emma and Shamima clearing the ground and planting up a new area in the front garden |
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| Jane weeding and tidying the wildlife bed and Jonathan bagging up our fresh compost |
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| Star of the day, the storm kettle |
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| Delicious spread made by Cafe Morningside |
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| Bags of fresh compost for each bed, Christmas has come early! |
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| Having a break and filling up with lots of food |
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| Lots of mmmm sounds |
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| Cutting up dry woody thing for storm kettle kindling |
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| Last teabreak of the day! |
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This Winter Garden Volunteer Day was organised by
Cordwainers Grow as part of our
Speed Greening project supported by
Team London.
