Adam and Matt

Weekend Practical blog: April 4th 5^th and 6th  

Adam Pacheco, Matt Deobelle

Monday:

 Today is the day of our reckoning as CLT testing day looms over our heads like a dark cloud. Those of us who are lucky enough to get the process over with early get their stress out of the way and the rest (I.E Adam Pacheco) are left to obsess, review and stress out over the exams. Therefore for the first four hours of the morning Hilary and I had swapped partners and set to work on the laneway planter bed.

We started out pruning the shrubs of any suckers and reviewing how we would properly prune this shrub in preparation for our pruning exam, talking ourselves through the process made the entire examination seem a little less daunting and instilled a little confidence in us. After that was finished we set out to work on the buckthorn also pruning away any suckers impeding healthy growth for the tree (this one had a TON). After that was completed we have the bed a quick sweep off and had a meeting with Lucas where we received our orders for the rest of the weekend.

Saturday:

We were greeted by a bitterly cold and honestly quire miserably windy morning the following day, however with the CLT testing behind us we found a little push a motivation to begin the days tasks. As I partnered up with Matt once again this morning we set upon our first task, pruning back the cotoneaster and spirea in front of the Cuddy hatchery. It was a nice slow paced job for the early morning that got us all warmed up and prepared for our next task, cutting back the tall grasses that make up the bulk of the planting in the front garden beds. With that completed and cleaned up we gave the bed a quick edge and blew and excess debris that we found and called it quits for the day.

 

Sunday:

A beauty of a morning today! The sky was clear and the sun was shining and with a little spring in our steps we set upon the rest of our tasks for the day. We began with getting all of our tools all neat and sorted that we would be using for the rest of the day the usual rakes, pruners, brooms, all that good stuff. Firstly we raked the front lawn of the Cuddy hatchery most of the morning up to our first break. Afterwards Matt and I decided it would be a good activity to unwrap the evergreens that we wrapped up fall of last year. The work was slow going and time consuming because the group that wrapped them up did such a thorough job (I.E Jrow and I) but we got them all done at a steady pace. It’s worth noting that the Blue Atlas Cedar seemed to have suffered a little bit of burn over the long winter so it may be a good idea to wrap it more thoroughly this upcoming fall. After lunch Hilary, Johnny, Matt and I got to work cleaning the front yard of the Cuddy gardens of all leaf litter and raking it neatly into the woodland gardens for some “Mulch au Natural”. With all these tasks completed we patted ourselves on the back for a job well done and promptly headed our separate ways, thanks for a great year Fanshawe!