Today I helped Mrs G with her front garden. Sadly when I turned up her niece answered and the door and was having to take her to hospital but she kindly provided some gardening tools so I cracked on. Mrs G has become quite immobile so she was grateful for the help weeding her front garden. Along the way I found a few treasures in the form of shells and uncovered a small rose bush hiding underneath the overgrown grass. Hopefully we can visit again to finish off and uncover some more treasures.

My first mission took me the other side of Richmond to Barnes and the lovely Ms J.

Ms J started by proudly showing me the brilliant work she had already done with fellow Goodgymer Alan a couple of weeks ago, and how much she had valued his time getting her comfortable getting out in the garden. But her overgrown garden was continuing to cause her some anxiety.

We ended up doing some weeding down the side, including a big budlia that had snuck under the fence from next door, mixing some compost that had been sitting around and causing Ms J stress, and repotting and tidying up the pots that Ms J wanted to get back into taking care of. This included creating a herb pot of parsley, mint and oregano that were scattered in different areas, and repotting some fruit trees that Ms J had planted herself from seed a couple of years ago.

Ms J was really happy to have the compost mixed and ready to use, and enjoyed the worms and wildlife she was encouraging in her garden.