Four GoodGymers met at Braywick Heath Nursery to help them prepare for a bumper Summer. This meant "plugging" saplings into pots filled with compost.

In a bright back-room, with the radio belting out easy tunes, we plugged away! It was therapeutic, almost. We worked non-stop for 2 hours and must've filled close to 100-200 pots.

Ben, the Nursery manager who worked tirelessly to top up compost, move the filled pots, bring new plugs etc, joked that we had worn him out, we were that efficient! We'll take that as a compliment and look forward to wearing him out again in the future 😂

Goodgym continues to support Braywick Plant Nurseries in planting up thousands of plug plants, ready for growing on ready for sale. Today it was 4 different colours of Lobelia followed by some Petunias. We kept the staff busy topping up the compost and taking the plants away so we could fill up the trays again. It was so satisfying seeing the fruits of our labours all laid out in the greenhouse. A great team effort

Roberta, Anne-Laure and Jess spent a morning potting plant plugs at Braywick Heath Nurseries.

They planted everything from tomatoes to petunias, quickly finding a system which maximised output!

They estimated planting over 500 plugs!!

There are more sessions at Braywick this week. Check the website and get signed up!

1. Not surprisingly, Spring is the busiest time of year at Braywick Plant Nurseries, and they need help potting up hundreds of plug plants. Today it was all about the veg, and the dream team of Amy, Christine and Sheila joined another volunteer at the potting bench. We potted up courgettes, sweetcorn, sweet peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers, Having completed our 5 veg a day, we hung up our gardening gloves and made our way home

4 Goodgymers responded to a request for an extra session at Braywick Plant Nurseries. They have received dozens of trays of plug plants that all need potting up so they can grow ready for sale. Regulars Laura and Sheila were joined by Kate for her second session there and Claire, who was inspired by Gardeners World to return to Goodgym and do something practical with plants. The four of us had a great production line going, potting up Heuchera, Salvia, Delphinium, Lavender, Rudbeckia, Nepeta and a Sunflower variety called Sunbelievable Brown Eyed Girl- thanks for the great report title! Hundreds of pots later, we had filled all the trolleys and bench space and had all loved such a productive and chatty morning.

Sheila and Agnija helped out at Braywick Plant Nursery, helping them get ready for spring. Our first task was to fill with compost, as many 10cm pots as would fit on the side bench. 364 pots later, the bench was full! They are now ready for transplanting plug plants We then moved on to finding all the 2 litre and 3 litre pots in amongst all the hundreds of pots that had been returned for re-use. We soon got our eye in, and there are piles of pots now waiting to be filled.