🌱 Wed July 14, Small Group Gardening Session at RPCG 🌱

We had two volunteers with us today who enjoyed collecting raspberries, blueberries and a few tayberries and strawberries. The first of the leek seedlings were planted out in their final position, there will be more to plant out when they are big enough. The shallots have unfortunately all bolted because of the hot weather, so they were pulled up and left to dry out in a covered area. Collard greens, beets and lettuce were also harvested today.

Two of our senior volunteers did an amazing job turning the contents of our compost bin, watering the bins after the current spell of very dry weather, and finally chopping a large pile of material in the collection bin and adding it to Compost Bin 1. The weeding continued in various parts of the garden and pruning of some of the perennials in the pollinator south border. The pea plants were cut down and laid on the ground to wither, thus keeping the soil moist and deterring weeds. We were treated to ice cream sandwiches and mint tea at the end of the session!

A huge thank you to the New Horizon Seniors Program for funding RPCG.