Cultivate had a big group of volunteers again this morning at Ealing Hospital, with plenty of corporate volunteers, locals, hospital staff and GoodGymers. Carrying on from last week's session, there were 2 areas to work on:

1. Raking, leveling and sowing the next set of flower beds, close to the staff car park
2. Fixing up the bird deterrents from last week's completed flower beds

Today's GoodGymers split to opposite ends of the site, with Rebekah near the entrance, keen to repair the shiny, fluttery tapes that she and others had attached last week to scare birds away from their newly sown seeds. Chris and Sevan went to prepare the new beds by leveling the soil and removing any large things that shouldn't be there.

The shiny streamers had drooped to the ground since they were placed a week ago. The wind had blown them around and they had slowly slipped down their canes, so instead of flying over the flower beds, birds were doing that instead. Rebekah tied the strands together to make a complicated spider's web that should stay put, working her way along the existing beds.

On the opposite side of the car park, Chris and Sevan were moving soil and searching for big rocks, making Sevan think of Primal Scream for some reason. It was mostly bricks that they unearthed, with Chris declaring that he'd discovered a small meteorite too. The rocks were taken out and by midday, the soil was raked and almost ready for planting by the afternoon seed crew.

Get your rocks out, get your rocks out, honey
Rake it now, now, get'em out downtown

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