GoodGym Bristol Sod Off and Refill with Gravel

10 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Paul Coombes
Caroline
Laura
Marianne Bradshaw
Jason Thorne
Valè Pico
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Melanie Young
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Bristol

Tuesday 26th March

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Valè Pico
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Melanie Young
Melanie Young

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This evening's GoodGymmers were rewarded with a lovely sunset as we ran and walked to Faithspace in Redcliffe to collect the tools and trolleys for the night's path laying.

Last time we'd had days of heavy rain and were glad of the light drizzle, tonight was drier and didn't the turf know it! We seemed to have found a particularly rocky patch which Marky had marked (so Marky-ed, I guess) as the next path joining the planters. There's already been lots of positive feedback about how much easier it is to get to the planters and beyond.

The gravel is a special "self-binding" type which makes for marvellous non-shedding paths and, when its been left a few weeks, a solid lump in dumpy sack.

Once the edges had been marked and knived (?), we split into ground-chiselling and gravel-chillesing teams, definitely a tough workout tonight. Many different strategies were tried with the top methods proving to be stabbing with a big fork for gravel breaking and sitting uphill and spading downhill for turf lifting (called sods, for anyone wondering). We are so creative and adaptive.

Perseverence paid off, the new path was given its preliminary stomp, catwalk-style and flavoured water was enjoyed. Laura and Vaguely Northern Darren headed off for a longer run back whilst the rest of us finished off, tidied up and took the tools back to Marky's workshop.

Top path-making, team!


This task supported
Redcliffe Raised Gardening Beds
To fill the raised beds we have already built with growing materials

It enables local people to garden the beds and to enhance an area with planting , including two higher level beds for older and disabled gardeners.

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