I joined Madeline and some regular volunteers 6 of us in total for their monthly gardening session at The Oasis community Garden in Herbert road. This lovely little garden for the community is run by volunteers and funding they have received, to try make the garden nicer for the local area.

It was my first time here and I'm not the most confident with gardening one of the volunteers it was her first time also and she works as a gardener she paired up with me to show me how to plant daffodil bulbs using a fiskars tool to help dig out holes for the bulbs, I never even knew what this was. We had to clear some of the weeds and litter from surrounding areas first, the area where we worked on would become a wild garden we had some wild flower seeds to sprinkle also. We didn't get round to planting the tulip bulbs.

After the session got under way I got a bit more confident with what I was doing and even used one of electric cutting machines to try and break up some of the harder pieces of mud. This was a really good session I gained bit more knowledge of planting and getting to know different plants but it also pushed me out my comfort zone.

The session runs every third Saturday of the month there is always plenty to do but if you don't fancy the gardening side of things there is always litter picking as this corner gets lot of litter, there is something for everyone 😊

Straight from the local parkrun, 2 GoodGymers descended (and then ascended) into the Oasis Community Garden, ready to join the regular volunteers for their Saturday morning tasks. This small but mighty pocket of greenery sits between a busy road and the local buildings, and is enjoyed by both locals and wildlife.

The main task for today was mulching as much as possible the area around the plants, but when we arrived, the local volunteers were already in full swing with shoveling, transporting and spreading the mulch. So we were assigned the task of bulb planting in preparation for a flowery garden next year. As a side task, we also got to do some weeding and general tidying up.

The skies were looking menacing and, with the threat of thunderstorms looming over us, we managed to plant a lot of the bulbs before the rain finally came down. This was thankfully short-lived, and after an hour's work all the bulbs were neatly underground, the mulch fully spread and the weeds pile looking bigger than at the start.

We'll only see the fruits (or flowers) of our labour next year when the bulbs blossom - we'll hopefully be back before then to help out again at this lovely garden!

Today, the team made the most of the non-rainy, non-cold day to help a community group with restoring a community garden outside Edge Hill House.

After a litter pick to clear the surrounding area and clearing weeds, we got to work laying the foundations for the dozen plants to be planted, ready to grow and blossom over the next handful of months!

A strong turnout today, with regular local Goodgym heroes and goodgymmers from outside the borough too! As always, Goodgym is great for meeting new people. On a personal note (written by Ulysse), it was a great way to get back into Goodgymming, after a few months of not having been out on a mission (I'll make up for it in the coming months...).

Let us know how the plants look if you're ever passing the garden, and thanks to all that came!