Weed Don't Need No Vegetation
36 GoodGymers made their way 8.0km to help the Hillside Gardens in Lambeth.
- Tuesday, 6th of August 2019
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Mark Gilyead
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There was some top running and good doing last night at GoodGym Lambeth with 36(!) runners turning out to visit Moorlands and Hillside Gardens for some woodchip spreading and weeding.
Big cheers to Lucy, Becca, Shauna, Freddie, Charlotte, Mac and Rachel for joining the gang!
After a quick intro including a quiet reminder that LAMBETH WON THE GOODGYM OLYMPICSπ₯ππΎπ€©πππ, we set off.
Freya lead a smaller group to Moorlands park to create 2 paths out of woodchip:
After a little detour which was definitely, according to Freyja, all part of the plan, the group found Karen and were set to work creating not one but two paths from woodchip. There was a huge pile of woodchip to be moved, but with Team spade, Team Wheelbarrow , Team Bucket and Michael and John trimming the grass we had it done in no time! πͺππ
And a bigger bunch of us ran 4k up Brixton Hill to Hillside Gardens to weed around the sports courts.
Lambeth Council have decided to limit their use of chemical weed killers π so they deployed the next best thing: GOODGYM WEED KILLERS π
These were some big weeds and BIG WEEDS means BIG ROOTS so we raided the tool shed for implements capable of deep ground penetration. The GoodGym machine is a ruthless beast and in 30 minutes a serious chunk of weeds were uprooted and barrowed into a big white bag. Freddie even scaled a wall to get at some of them π¬(see pics).
Next week we've got two tasks again! If you fancy a longer run, we're flyering for the Brixton People's Kitchen and we'll have a shorter one to Ruskin Park Community Garden. Sign up here!
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