Last night we were called in to help clear a patch of ground outside Rose Hill Community Centre. There's a plan in place to turn it into a functional garden space with raised beds for the Rose Hill Junior Youth Club, but it's currently overrun with cotoneaster. Armed with secateurs, pruning saws, and forks we chopped, sawed and dug until the light failed, then switched on the portable lights and headtorches to finish up.

We haven't completely cleared the ground, but we've made a good start!

Thank you for keeping us fueled with biscuits and melon Meg.

Warneford Hospital is creating a new garden on the front lawn to mark the 200th anniversary of the site next year. It's a big undertaking, with an avenue of trees, and a series of huge planters made from curved corrugated steel sheets for the different wards to take ownership of.

Last night we were filling the gabion baskets which surround the planters for the trees. They were filled with a combination of recycled rubble and pine cones from the mature trees around the lawn. It was quite a creative process! We also shifted twenty large pallets into the bottoms of the 7 huge raised bed planters, and started filling them with a combination of woodchip and top soil. It was a race against the sunset, but we made good progress.

We'll be back next week for more of the same!

Thank you Vicky for the report title.

In a race against the sunset we headed to Aston's Eyot for a last evening scything session of the year.

The Friends of Aston's Eyot are creating a new meadow area, so the task this evening was to continue to prepare the area for wild flower seeds. We scythed and raked nettles from the perimeter, bashed in 3 fence posts (it needs fencing so the deer don't eat everything), hoed away unwanted seedlings which were popping up, and collected up a vast amount of broken glass. Aston's Eyot used to be a rubbish dump, so there is a huge amount of Victorian glass just below the surface.

Well done on reaching 50 Good Deeds Laura!