Two GGers, Adam and Alex visited the Homemead Residential care home for only the second time.

We were tasked with de-weeding and sweeping the garden to make it more attractive for residents and their visitors.

Armed with just gardening gloves, brooms and bin bags, we came, we saw, de-weeded and swept the garden area and it was immediately put to use by the care homes visitors.

A job well done!

...... keep a wider variety of plants alive during really dry weather, promoting better biodiversity.

More watering, tonight, just the Three Pigeons Plot and the Arcade, plus a bit of weeding out of plane tree saplings and thistles. Great to see how much happier and healthier some of the plants are looking after a few watering missions.

And a huge 'thank you' to the wonderful gentleman who offered to help out during his daily evening walk and has now started to dead-head the stachys in the Arcade Rockery.

After loosing the brass handle for the outside tap at St Mary’s church last night , a second search before work this morning proved futile but bit a third attempt at lunchtime revealed the brass tap handle/key camouflaged under similarly sized brown and gold leaves.

So accessing the water was easy, mole grips unnecessary, and watering the wild-flower beds and around the war memorial was straightforward and easy to combine with a bit of litter picking.

Keep plants alive in dry weather. ( but access to water is essential).

Evening watering in Buccleuch Gardens .

Unfortunately additional watering of the new wildflower beds at St Mary’s Church didn’t happen as the handle of the outside tap skittered away and disappeared into the darkness before any water could be drawn .

Off to one of our favourite locations tonight where manager Danielle always has good plans to make best use of GoodGym!

This evening we were helping to clean and put away the camping equipment from a trip to the New Forest. It's a more in-tents workout than you might imagine, getting into a collapsed tent to sweep up and then working as a team to roll the giant tent into a bag! Watch us in action here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNgluPNI-NJ/?igsh=MXZhYXNjZWJ2ZnpyNw==

More tent cleaning, some leaflet cutting and some happy group photos before running back off into the darkening evening!

..... help young plants establish deeper roots and thrive and ensure that older plants that are less drought tolerant survive.