Mulch-os Grass-ias

8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bromley
James
Cat
George Woolfrey
Linda Gatley
Mark Gilyead
1 / 5
Bromley

Monday 27th May

Credits
Mark Gilyead
Mark Gilyead

SESSION ORGANISER

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)

Share the love

Today is a big day for the Cator Park friends group - they've got their Green Flag award assessment. They've put an amazing amount of work into making the park a work of art so fingers crossed they get it 🤞🤞

That meant that our group run last night was all about tying up some loose ends.

We kicked off at the Bridge House with our top celeb interactions - quite the selection! - and then took an adventurous route to the park.

Catherine was already there barrowing mulch and it was nice to see Linda, Tim and George too!

Our main task was making "tree circles" around 4 of the new-ish saplings. They're all doing pretty well but the grass around them is taking the goodness and water from the soil.

Linda gave us some great tree knowledge - Summer roots are wide and shallow to catch the occasional summer rain - 1.5x the canopy distance from the trunk, and winter roots go deeper for when the ground is more sodden.

We pulled out the grass, chucked it to the side, and then Catherine and James swooped in with some mulch to keep the water in and the weeds down.

Top stuff, team 🙌



Discuss this report
Linda Gatley

Thu 30th May at 10:42pm

This is talented punning

Join us on our next session

Bromley

Weeding and Planting at the Silverdale Flower Beds
🗓Saturday 11:00am

Help to maintain these beautiful Sydenham community planters and grow your gardening knowledge!

Shauna
One GoodGymer is going