This evening saw us return to Marlpit Community Garden on a lovely calm summer evening.

The team split into two group. Group 1 were clearing weeds from around the fruit trees, and Group 2 were clearing a vegetable plot.

At the end if the evening we were kindly invited to take some rhubarb, redcurrants and gooseberries.

Tonight we visited the lovely Marlpit Community Gardens, on what was a rather chilly June evening. The 4.5km run there sure warmed us up a little though!

During the winter they had cut back lots of willow trees, so our task was to collect the branches and transport them to an area where they could be stood up so they don't rot. So basically a lot of lifting was required... we definitely got our strength training in.

It task was quite a long distance this evening (4.25km each way!) so we got a good workout just getting to and from the task.

We returned the tranquil Marlpit Community Gardens for the first time this year.

There was two task: 1) turn over compost. 2) clear an overgrown garden bed.

Before we new it, the team were forking and shoveling until their heart's content. The task owner said it would have taken him a week to do it on his own.

It was one of our longer runs this evening, 4km each way! It's always worth it for the trip to Marlpit Community Gardens, it was a lovely evening in beautiful surroundings.

Alina was completing her 25th good deed!

The main task was to clear out the weeds from the Asparagus bed... you can see from the before and after shot, what an incredible transformation job everyone did.

There was also some grass turning so it doesn't rot.

Another lovely evening with great people.

This evening's visit to Marlpit Community Garden was our first there this year.

We took the scenic route there via Marriott's Way, which was a good 4.5km each way... definitely got us working up a sweat.

The location of the task is in such a lovely setting and we were set with the challenge of clearing some weeds in the Gooseberry area. I've never seen so many Gooseberries in all my life.

After 40 minutes we managed to fill 6 wheelbarrow's worth of weeds, which were then transported to the compost pile.

We couldn't leave before we were allowed to pick some lovely fresh rhubarb to take home.

Another visit to the Marlpit community garden for GoodGym saw us put to work raking grass cuttings to be used as mulch for trees. We welcomed Alison to her first mission and we soon started clearing cuttings from the orchard. Mark from the garden bet we wouldn’t manage to finish cleaning the first half of the orchard, taking up the challenge we managed that.... and back again..... and the section above...... and the next field..... and then finished with the edges of the flower meadow. Things were livened up by the baby frogs we uncovered with Sam, Elizabeth, Andy and Liz particularly good at finding them. As the light faded we finished up leaving a happy gardener and some startled but unhurt frogs!