Two surprisingly topical tasks awaited us on this sunny Sunday morning: freeing a sovereign elder tree from a nasty bramble invasion (maybe we should get involved in global politics?), and levelling up the compost heap in the northern part of the allotment (maybe we should get involved in national politics?). I'm proud to report we successfully completed both tasks, and celebrated our achievements with a round of liquid orchard gold.

As part of our regular task we met up at the Haven this morning. The Haven is always a lovely tranquil place but especially so when the sun was shining! Regular Goodgymmers were joined by Oliver and Richard on their first task, welcome both, hopefully this will be the first of many and you'll soon be getting your black t-shirts!
Stuart from the Haven divided us into 2 groups, the first comprising Russ, Richard, Ollie and Steve wielded forks, spades and a mattock to clear an area ready for the erection of a covered structure, whilst David, James and I proceeded to weed and dig over a bed which will be used for spring veg, in the process uncovering an oak seedling and harvesting some late potatoes and LOTS of bindweed - which apparently makes great slug repellent - who knew? Many trips to the compost heap later and our time was done. As a thank you Stuart offered a lovely organic winter squash for any that wanted one (mine is going in soup!)
We'll be back at the Haven next month as there are lots of ongoing tasks including laying chipping paths.