Dylan McLeod and Kayla Teves

Friday:

T’was Friday the 13^th. The air was cold and brisk on our faces as we marched up to our destination for the weekend: The Strathroy Cuddy Gardens.

Our day began with a walk around the micro nursery and very thorough instructions from Lucas for our weekend tasks.

As we listened intently (notepad in hand) we wrote down page after page of the tedious tasks to be done. Our work was cut out for us, but we were excited to get started!

We learned that majority of our weekend would be dedicated to organizing the endless piles of flower pots stored in the greenhouse. They were located under the workbenches in large, unorganized mounds. But this was about to change.

Dylan and I got started on organizing the biggest sized pots, in order of shape, size and colour. 5 gallon, 4 gallon and 3 gallon pots (hundreds of them) were stacked into neat rows, at the back corner of the hoop house. This was our starting point.

Our day continued in that sequence, down to the 1 gallon round, and 1 gallon square pots. This was all the organizing that was to be done today, for there were thirsty plants waiting to be watered outside…

 

 

 

Saturday:

 

Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we were back at it. Now that we have all the larger sized pots organized, it was time to do the same for the remaining smaller ones; filtering out the broken, random, and misshaped. At lunch time, the plants located inside the hoop house were watered. We then had the fun challenge of taking apart some old wooden benches, in order to throw them away into the burn pile. We continued sorting the small pots until our day came to an end.

 

 

Sunday:

 

Our final day began with finalizing the sorting that needed to be done. At last the entire place was organized and looking sharp by lunch! After lunch, we began transplanting Shasta daisies from 5” pots to 1 gallon pots. Each plant was deadheaded, labeled and given a fresh start in their new soil and larger pots. Hopefully they’ll thrive over the winter and look great by next season.

Finally, we swept and tidied the greenhouse to conclude our eventful weekend at the Strathroy Cuddy Gardens’ greenhouse.