So the Saturday after I was back with the hope of helping with the DVG. Three of us were there, myself, Andy and Tim. The garden currently has 8 raised beds and a large wheelchair friendly raised bed, and two non-raised planting beds, they also have a compost pile which has been started off with horse-manure from the riding school next door. Currently they are growing some beans, potatoes, rhubarb and onions, however they are a bit limited due to the necessity of having the soil pass some tests, which are being carried by the park. The land is owned by Southwark Parks, and they are paranoid about the quality of the soil, as such no serious planting until we get the all clear, they have been waiting 7 weeks for this to be sorted. Come on Southwark Council pull your finger out!
The mornings plan was to keep on top of weeding, line the wheelchair friendly beds with clay and build a bench. Moving clay is hard work, it took me about 6 wheelbarrow fulls. Now, the morning after, I'm feeling the unused muscles in my back complaining about all the heavy lifting they have done. The bench was worked on by Tim and Andy and they were finished in no time. We now have a place to sit and admire our land, there are plans to add at least two more benches.
Our bench, picture by Tim.
Other notable events are the finding of a bone during the weeding. I have no idea what animal it came from but it doesn't look human. I'll leave it to the interwebs to find out for me what creature it once was.
The mysterious bone! (Click image for larger version)
The garden is now waiting for delivery of a greenhouse and tool shed which should be all sorted within the fortnight.
The DVG can be followed on twitter, or more information about when work is being done can be seen by signing up to the DVG Project Dirt project page .
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