It’s the bulbs planting season and that was precisely what the Woodthorpe York volunteers asked us to help them with.

Tonight we welcomed Amanda, our new member, who saw us working in the West Bank Park few weeks ago and couldn’t resist joining the fun. Give her a big Cheer!

Amy, from Woodthorpe York, talked us through the selection of biscuits and quality street sweeties on offer.... back to the task we were presented with couple thousand of crocuses and daffodil bulbs and had 1 hour to plant them all – an ideal GoodGym task! Fortunately the method was to lift a small section of turf with the use of a spade and throw a handful of bulbs, making sure shoots face upwards and cover it back with turf. It sounded easy and we went to make a start.

Debs, Richard, Amy, Ed, Michael and Leanne started planting around tree bases and by the play area fence, meanwhile Laura and David went to where the bigger trees were to plant the bulbs in a big 'G' pattern – we will have to come back in spring to see the results. The third group - Izzy, Barbara, Amanda, Lucy and Michal went to plant around the green perimeter closer to the shops.

Have you lost something, are you looking for a key? - passerby

One lady came to us with her child to show her how bulbs planting is done by pros. Another passer-by thought that we were searching for a lost key and offered to help, but we quickly explained to him what this walking in the dark with head torches and looking down was all about.

At 19:30 we still had couple hundred bulbs in the box, but were told not to worry as the Woodthorpe York are planning to have a stall on the green this Saturday, giving the remaining bulbs away to local people to plant in their gardens. Check out their event page on Facebook. https://fb.me/e/3Fl9FBlGm

Pleased with results of our work we treated ourselves with sweets and, as it started to rain again, few of us went for a post mission social run around Woodthorpe.

Well done Team and see you at the next task.