Plug Life

23 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Michal Czekajlo
Leanne
Nicola Gover
Paul Kelly
Mitch
Jonathan Fisk
Debs Sharpe
Vicky Hearson
Steve Rice
Amy Tew
Andy Richardson
Vicky Richardson
Laura Barrett
Richard Parkinson
James Sandie
Ellie
David Jones
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York

Saturday 17th October 2020

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It was a beautiful and majestic sight to see 23 Goodgymers gallop ( /cycle) across the green (and welcome back a few familiar faces) to where Jenny from the council awaited with many maaaaany plant plugs and bulbs. For today was no ordinary day, today we were going to do what many Goodgymers had tried before, to plant them all!

We quickly divvied up the tools and got to work digging in socially distanced teams in between the trees. We had various young plant plugs (which had to be extracted with screw drivers!?!) and handfuls of bulbs which included bluebells, crocuses, wild tulips and twiglets (or the roots of wood anenomes that looked like twiglets).

With valiant efforts not to eat the bulbs which were getting confused with garlic, potatoes, onions and twiglets we managed to plant everything in only an hour! Other highlights included Nikki unearthing a plug of a different variety, passing visits from GG legends Egg, Digby, Huw & baby Noah and by no means least the copious amount of baked goods that seemed to have mater that materialised as incentives to join the task (Big shout out to Babs, Vicky H and Nikki G!)

We then slowly dispersed and wound our ways to other Saturday activities.


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Michal Czekajlo

Mon 19th Oct 2020 at 10:12am

I came an hour later with my kids to show them what we were doing and a lady stopped to say thank you, as she saw us planting earlier. Great work!

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