Working on the Garden #2

On Saturday, wearing our bright orange Envision t-shirts, me, Bethan, Immy’s Dad, Nancy and Emma spent an afternoon in the garden. Luckily, the weather was beautiful and the sun continued to shine all afternoon. We managed to get a lot done and kept up the hard work the other team members had done the previous week.

We managed to:

• Put up the bird boxes (after having fun getting the nail into the fence!)
• Plant the vegetable seeds in the raised beds (but not the carrots because Bethan realised that her packet of seeds had no seeds in!)
• After much confusion about how to actually plant a bulb correctly, we managed to put bulbs and compost in all of the pots we’d bought
• Finish digging bricks out of the bottom of the garden (using a huge pick axe!)
• Plant the rest of the plants underneath the trellis
• Put the strawberry plant in the most awesome plant pot
• Level out the ground under the compost bin
• Plant bulbs in the back right hand corner of the garden to fill up some gaps

The residents came out and gave us a hand with digging the bricks out of the garden underneath the trellis and also putting the bulbs and compost into plant pots. It was very rewarding seeing the smiles on the resident’s faces when they got involved. 

We all had a great time and can’t wait to get back into the garden another day! We’d like to say a huge thank you to Immy’s dad for his time, Kings Heath Park Rangers for donating the bird boxes and the garden centres which have kindly given us a discount.


Here are some pictures from the day:

- Jane