Last Tuesday and Thursday, the volunteers at Edinburgh set out to continue previous work on several community gardens across Edinburgh (Broomhouse and West Pilton) owned by the Y-people. There was a lot of general weeding and tidying up to do before the gardens looked semi-decent! In broomhouse, the beginnings of a strong wooden gate were created in order to give the garden a little privacy and security and the raised beds already made by a corporate group earlier in the year were given a once over weeding.
In West Pilton, Raised beds were made from scratch from giant unused railway sleepers. A huge and difficult task considering the sleepers were full of horrible smelling tar and were so thick to cut that even the saws had a hard time! Once built, the raised beds were filled with soil and the surrounding area weeded and wood-chipped. Overall, a very successful week!