Damsons in no distress

5 Goodgymers helped their local community in Kingston upon Thames
Rob Haworth
Shrey Jain
Steve Murtough
Grace Tribe
Emily
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Kingston upon Thames

Thursday 3rd September 2020

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Report written by Jane Yelloly

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No one was deterred by a bit of warm rain and Kingston was delighted to welcome back the damsels from Bristol Uni and Steve who came all the way over from Greenwich - amazing!

Thanks to Brian and Ben for letting us pick from the luscious damson trees to put them out of any distress! We left with a bag full each. Maybe even enough to make our first batch of GG damson gin?

We also made light rope work of putting to bed for winter the netting round the gooseberry bushes and anchoring branches of an errant plum tree to ensure they grow low for easy fruit picking next year.

And if anyone has any good tips for damsons please let us know!


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Kingston Edible Forest Garden
A vounteer run sustainable community orchard

Develop and maintain a mixed orchard: 200 trees of heritage apple varities, pear, plums, quince, medlar, mulberry, nuts, pond, polytunnel ... We propagate apple trees and have panted 20 in local junior schools and have a tree nursery to grow trees up for local parks and wild life areas. We are in discussion with the council about planting trees in streets.

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Richmond runner

Sat 5th Sep 2020 at 11:58am

Awesome work guys! Welcome back girls!! :-)

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