Cuddy Weekend Duty Blog
Friday Oct 28th
We began our chilly morning
with going down to the hoop houses and cutting back and cleaning up a variety
of perennials. We also received the job of putting away multiple boxes
containing CLT materials, which we just
took part in only a couple weeks back here at the Cuddy Garden’s. The compost
pile was looking a little messy, so we decided to grab a couple pitch forks and
push it all back so that it wasn’t overflowing. We then made our way to the
indoor pool area where we started to clean, water, and cut back any plants that
weren’t looking so well. We also ended up having to replace the odd small grass
in the brand new labyrinth that was built by the students in the Horticulture
program at Fanshawe College. We finished
off the day by re-potting the grasses we had replaced and making sure our work
areas were left clean.
Saturday
Oct 29th
Our morning began with the
light task of re-staining the compost bins, but we could not find the can of
stain. We later found out that the can of stain was locked up inside the Cuddy
pick-up truck. Of course we didn’t let that slow our day down, we immediately
headed over to the rose garden and began cutting down all the Peony’s on the
Cuddy grounds. Our next job was to go down to the perennial gardens and begin
to cut back plants as well as pull any weeds in sight. We were told not to use
any heavy machinery over the weekend due to the wet ground, so we had to haul
away everything the old fashion way, with a wheel barrel. We also had the
pleasure of having Michael Pascoe visit us while we were cleaning up the
perennial beds. He instructed us to cut back more perennials then originally instructed
which led to finishing our day off in the perennial gardens.
Sunday Oct 30th
The final day of our weekend
duty started out with walking down to the tool shed and unlocking the side door
only to realize we had forgot to disarm more than just the class room. We ran
back up to the class room and properly disarmed the alarm and grabbed all of
our tools we would need for the morning and began to work on the perennial
garden where we left off yesterday. A light rain started falling as we
continued to work away, until it started getting a little too heavy and we were
both soaking wet. After the rain stopped we worked on the perennial garden
which took a lot longer because of how wet everything was. Once the perennial
garden was finished we then did some weeding in the rock garden and removed
leafs that had fallen from the neighboring tree. The next task as to rake the
gravel walk was in dry garden, after the gravel was raked we than finished off
the day by cleaned all the tool that we
had used and cleaned the class room.