Dick* Dave and the Bad Weeds

Five GG Yorkies met on a breezy but sunny Friday afternoon to help tidy up at Holgate Community Garden. We welcomed newbie Clare to her first GG session - welcome Clare! GoodGym have worked on this area many times over the years and it was lovely to see it in the sunshine, bearing lots of flowers, lovely wild areas with interesting grasses and several fruit trees.

We got to work along the one border, pulling up the "bad weeds", trimming shrubs that had flowered, removing brambles and tidying up the edges. I trimmed back some honeysuckle from around the noticeboard which was completely covered and then trimmed the grass from around one of the fruit tree signs - turns out it was a Nashi Pear 🍐 - Niitaka.

After an hour we had filled several barrows full of weeds which were put onto the compost heap and the area looked a lot neater and tidier. I'm sure we will be back to tackle more of the "bad weeds" soon.

*Unfortunately there wasn't anyone called Dick (or Richard although we did have a Dave) but it made a good pun!