Volunteers: around 20, including Alec, Heather, Sarah of the regulars
Community Garden Volunteer Saturday
On 29 April, FOMBL volunteers met at the Community Garden
site to give the Garden volunteers a hand in implementing Phase One – clearing
the turfs, digging trenches for potatoes and erecting the first raised bed.
While a group of keen woodworkers got to work with the cut
timber, others dug over the little vegetable patches, and removed rubble. Then
they dug trenches and filled them with compost.
Other FOMBL volunteers did some heroic litter picking, and
yet a further group
used the turfs to repair burnt and damaged sections of the
grass on the Meadows.
When the raised bed was up, everyone got busy filling it
with compost, and the first herb, a rosemary, was planted with due ceremony.
Donations of herbs welcome.
The potatoes will be planted by children from Sciennes
Primary School on 2 May, and volunteers from Trees for Cities will plant the
Community Orchard on 5 May. Phase One is
well under way!
Many thanks to all our helpers.
Sarah Tolley