We spent the week at the Orchard Clinic of the Royal Edinburgh Hopital. We were building raised beds in two of their gardens for the patients to grown their own plants and veg in. The planting in the borders was also pretty dull, so we were taking out a lot of bushes and putting a more interesting variety of plants in their place.
Tuesday began with a lot of wheelbarrowing, and we made a start on the horseshoe-shaped raised bed. This raised bed was completed and filled on Wednesday, and the planting in this garden was finished off. We moved on to the second garden on Thursday which was quite a hike around the building. A square raised bed was built in record time by a crack carpentry team, while the rest of the group concentrated on preparing the borders for planting. There was even more wheelbarrowing to fill the raised bed and the planting was completed. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work!
As it was Gemma’s last week, there was lots of baking. And despite all the mickey-taking Chris’ brownies were actually very good. Maybe with a bit of encouragement he might be persuaded to fill the baking void…!