Brittany and Kyle April 11-13

Greenhouse Practical
April 11, 12, 13.
Brittany and Kyle

 

The weekend started off as usual by receiving our weekend tasks from Lucas and Michael. Lucas instructed us to start moving the woody plants out of the hoop house and into the gravel area between the two hoop houses. We worked away at this for the majority of the morning reorganizing and grouping the plants together, topping up the media and weeding as we went along. After lunch, Michael gave us our major task for the weekend – to develop a spreadsheet to show the quantities of all the plants in the hoop houses for the spring plant sale. We decided to conquer the far hoop house first with all the perennials in it. But before we got started we, along with Mike got the hyacinth out of the pool room and put them into bulb crates that were donated from the Canada Blooms show – Michael never says no anything free! Mike also showed us how to take cutting of Optunia from the rock garden which we propagated back in the hoop house. We spent the remainder of the day completing the first part of the spreadsheet from the first hoop house.

 

Saturday morning we arrived a little tired but eager to get a lot accomplished. The morning was a chilly but by the afternoon it become obvious that spring had FINALLY arrive and was here to stay. Kyle and I continued to work away are reorganizing and cleaning up the hoop houses. We pulled out all the large trees from the hoop house and lined them up outside. We all filled up the entire gravel area with all the woody deciduous plants that the space allowed. After lunch we entered all of the plants in the gravel area into the spread sheet and spent the last hour of the day deadheading and going through plants in the last hoop house. The day wrapped up just as the rain started to fall – perfect timing!

Sunday we were greeted by the usual muddy grounds this time of year; we got a decent amount of rainfall Saturday night. We started off the morning but reorganizing the last hoop houses and putting the plants into groupings so that they would be easy to count and record onto the spread sheet. We finished putting the all the plants into the spreadsheet and spent the remainder of the day by dead heading and getting rid of perennials that didn’t survive the winter, giving the hoop houses a much needed spring cleaning and Kyle watered.