Sol, Sheila and Angela met the community allotment on a sunny Friday afternoon.

The task was to prepare empty vegetable beds for the winter break. Angela and Sheila started weeding, Sol made several wheelbarrow rides to bring manure to the beds. The last part was to cover them with plastic sheets to suppress weeds over the winter months.

The hour passed quickly while catching up summer trips and upcoming events. We escaped the rain and that was a positive start to the weekend!

Angela, Rosie and Sheila welcomed Claire back to her first Goodgym mission for a while. It was great to see you back! Today's task was to take down the bean plants and supports. We cut the plants near the base, leaving the roots in the ground to continue fixing nitrogen in the soil. We unwound the plants from the supports and then untied and gathered the canes together and stored them away for use next year. The plants went on the compost heap. Rosie and Angela picked the Dutch drying beans. The beds are now ready for some manure and putting to bed for the winter - maybe next week's task

Rosie, Rachel and Sheila gathered at the community allotment for our regular session The weather had conveniently done the watering for us, and after admiring the progress with the greenhouse project we got down to doing some serious weeding . The soil was perfect, and the weeds came away easily. Rain stopped play slightly early, but we had cleared 4 beds, and Rosie took some beetroot home for tea

Diya and Kanika nipped over to the Maidenhead Community Allotment to give the plants some much needed drink and filled the water butts.

Rosie, Viv and Angela topped up the water butts, gave all the veggies and fruit a really good drink and took down the peas and their support, digging the roots into the soil to provide some useful nitrogen. Everyone was amazed at the amount of produce still growing.

All 3 cycled off happily into the sunset😂

Christine and Sheila went to the Community Allotments this evening. First task was to fill the water butts with the hose. Meanwhile we watered all the crops with watering cans. We also had a bit of time to do some pruning of the tomato side shoots and harvested some beetroot. We ended up with a set of full water butts, ready for all the watering which will need to be done this week.