Okra-p! That's A Big Pile Of Soil

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ealing
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Ealing

Saturday 5th April

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After a huge task at Horsenden Farm with WWF earlier in the day, Kash, Steph and Sevan arrived at Feeding Ealing's site not knowing what they'd find. When they saw the site, everything looked great. The teram that they laid down last time to hide the mud was gone. The mud underneath was gone too, replaced by firm, dry soil under foot and finally, there was soil in the raised beds.

So, what was today's task? Someone had dumped a huge pile of soil at the entrance and the ask was to:

  1. Move it closer to the polytunnel
  2. Top up the raised beds
  3. Plant some okra seeds

Everyone got to work moving the soil, finding inventive ways to get it to the top of the main compost pile or into the raised beds. It was tough graft as the wheelbarrows were big and the soil was heavy, plus there was a nice slope leading uphill to the polytunnel area.

The team managed to shift most of the soil and the time came to plant the okra, but too late as it was already the end of toady's task. The okra seeds will need to wait for next time or, given the progress from one month to another, we might be planting something completely different.


This task supported
Feeding Ealing CIC
Creating an urban allotment to grow fresh food for local charities.

We're planning to erect a poly-tunnel and growing beds to produce fresh vegetables for local charities.

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