Fig -uring it out

Sunny Worthing

On a lovely August evening we pulled ourselves away from watching the Olympics to arrive at a task that we hadn't been to for a while, the garden at Worthing Leisure Centre. We were slightly despondent to see what a state it had got into but put that behind us as we were determined to work our usual magic on it. It was the first of 4 visits scheduled in the next month.

First to mention is our amazing Paul who it's always wonderful to see and whom I inadvertently left out of the run report last week ( but not the register ! ) So sorry Paul 😞 Tonights was Paul's 197th task so he and I chatted through plans to celebrate his 200th ! Paul did the most amazing pruning of a tree in the seated area of the cafe and function room. He singlehandedly almost filled up the compost heap with the trail of bindweed and discarded overgrown branches. Together with sweeping the srea it looked a whole lot better than it had done ! This looked like a very satisfying time well spent!

Gillybeanwho was in charge tonight opened up the shed and got out tools . The instructions were simply, to get stuck in, as everywhere we looked, it needed attention.

Gill immediately played to her strengths with some digging out of an area where the children had in previous years planted sunflowers 🌻 ( which we had prepared the ground for ) followed by extensive pruning of loads of shrubs all surrounding the area ( more for the compost heap! )

Roxy did a fantastic job on one of the raised beds clearing it the completely digging it over which looked fantastic !

Barbara did similar with the other raised bed but left a few plants that were still flowering.

Belinda helped Gill with the digging over of the previous sunflower bed before helping Paul clear up his prunings.

All this time John had been quietly digging over one of the other ( slightly ) raised beds including trying to level out a few mounds of earth ( a few jokes passed through about the whereabouts of Duncan and Lucy 🤣 )

Several of us had been foraging for figs whilst tidying up under the tree too ! The figs were absolutely 💯 delicious and those that like them feasted on them !

Check out all the ' before ' photos that Gillybean took on her visit last night 😱

From a wilderness to a less of a wilderness it was, despite the neglect, an extremely satisfying one hour well spent.

Have a great week everyone 🤩

Julia xx