Duo GoodGamers Sabir and Marie-Noëlle joined the weekend gardener squad down at Canbury Community Garden.

In the 3-round main event, H2O heavyweight Sabir lugged water using a wheelbarrow, a water barrel, and a bucket to refill the garden's main reserve. It was an absolute knockout victory over dehydration!

Undefeated by the high temperature, Marie-Noëlle completed a staggering 18-round watering can marathon to refresh the sun-baked vegetable patch. 💦 tomatoes drenched
💦 courgettes submerged
💦 cucumbers flooded
💦 runner beans absolutely soaked
A successful backyard hydration mission!

Tonight was all about watering as the heatwave continues to keep everyone and the plants hot and thirsty.

Having located the handle for the water carriers and extra buckets Dave, Luke, Claire and Jonathan headed to the river to fill every bucket, wheelbarrow and watering can in sight.

Wheelbarrows loaded with water were wheeled over to the GoodGym flowerbed for watering all the plants to keep it looking colourful and keep them going for a few more days.

Meanwhile the water carriers were taken to the community garden and emptied into the waterbutts. As fast as they were filled they were emptied for watering all the vegetables.

By the end it was a slick operation emptying the water carriers into buckets and into the waterbutts.

In between all of this Tom and Laura managed to give the compost heaps a good turn as well.

Let hope we get some rain before our next visit.

At Canbury Gardens, Levita and Eleanor helped out by filling large water barrels with water from the river using wheelbarrows and water canisters. The water would later be used to water the plants and garden patches around the area. The activity also gave us a great workout for the day and definitely made us use our muscles while carrying and moving the water around. What a powerful way to start the weekend!

This morning in the sunshine, we got through our jobs, working together and also with help offered by passers by.

We started off by Ellie and myself being the water gathering, while doing this we had offers off help by people passing by, 1 helping to collect water and another offer of help with the wheelbarrows where the containers were full. Whilist this was done we had left Claire to toss the compost heaps in the gardens. Then we all teemed up again to brake up soil and dig some compost into it, in 3 big planter boxes that has been donated by the council.

We left satisfied after doing a great task and engaging with 3 members of the community, with their offers of help, throwing in chat about goodgym . The only downside to today was to find out that Mr Fox had got away with a full belly of chickens. Hopefully they will acquire more.

Saturday 4 GoodGymers met with the Canbury Community Garden team to attend to much needed garden duties. One team armed with spades and garden forks took on the 3 compost bays, digging, lifting, tossing, turning compost, and then recovering the compost bays with a blanket of fresh straw. Meanwhile the second team attended to the pond area, clearing fallen leaves, and mud, fallen rocks, and re-securing the pond liner. Topped up the pond with water collected from the swollen, fast moving river. A job well done!

A team of 7 GoodGymers spent the morning at Canbury Community Garden. The winter sun was out in full force, we powered through our the list of tasks with plenty of banter and laughter. The hay! We did a spot of wedding in one of the garden beds and reapplied a protective blanket of hay. Rot and roll! We got stuck into the 3 compost heaps, giving that worm rich black gold a good tumble, ready for the spring planting. We made a splash! We cleared out the winter debris in the pond, and working those muscles using the water rollers we refilled the pond with river water. Looking fresh! Snip snap! Secateurs in hand, we gave the thorns along the fence a much-needed tidy-up to make room for gorgeous spring growth. 📢 and today, we welcomed a new GoodGymer during our sun-soaked mission! Nothing beats the feeling of a productive dig in the fresh air!