Dave and Brandy April 18-20

April 18, 19, & 20^th. Dave and Brandy

                Spring has sprung and it is time to open up the greenhouses for the year! It has been a long cold winter and our plants have been very patient. When we arrived at Cuddy’s for 8am out first order of business was to be sure all of the plants in both hoop houses and the nursery were watered. During watering we noticed some of the trees and shrubs in the nursery were in consistent with their pot sizing, and the nursery floor needed more gravel. The only problem with that was the rain setting in, so we moved our work inside transplanting some metasequoia, and staking them and also staking some birch tree saplings.  In the poly house, some flats on the floor were not laid out properly (3 rows of 4 flats with one in between each set of rows.)

 

                Saturday was a bright and sunny day, although the morning was cold it warmed up immensely for the afternoon. We started out day by collecting the pots that the selected plants were to be transplanted into. Once we had all of our pots we moved the selected plants out of the nursery area to complete putting the gravel down and levelling it out.  Once all of our gravel was levelled out, I (Brandy) started transplanting, while Dave cleaned up the area where we built the stone wall. After the area was all cleaned up we had some grass brought to us that we were instructed to pot up, bringing us to the end of the day.

                Sunday morning started out beautifully. As everyone arrived we planned out our tasks for the day. Dave and I finished the transplanting and moving the trees in the nursery, which put us onto our next task of pruning the weeping mulberry trees. After that I moved all of the steel from behind the compost and cleaned up that whole area straightening out the tarp and cleaning up the stones. The end of our day was simply cleaning up the greenhouses, weeding the plant pots and osmacoteing everything. At the end of the day we washed all the tools we used and helped the maintenance crew also clean their tools and washed the tractors.