September 19th to 21st, Rachael and Taylor

Taylor and Rachael Blog Post

Cuddy garden practical

Friday September 19^th

 

                We arrived at Cuddy’s for eight ‘o’clock and Lucas was late. We then started our day with the tour of the gardens and tool shed. Our first task was to move and pack the cacti, succulents and tropical plants. We moved them in the house and the car port to be transferred to the school. We cleaned the pots and arranged them by size in the crates so they could fit on the cart.

 
 

  Lucas told us to grab some cuttings of an annual and bring them to the green house where he showed us how to properly cut and plant them. We took the cutting so then we will be able to propagate more of the plant for the annual plant sale in the spring.

 

  Lucas gave us another tour on what to do for the remainder of our practical. Finally we finished moving the rest of the plants inside. Then we packed up set the alarms and headed home.  

 

Saturday September 20^th

 

                On this wonderful morning we opened up and gave Lucas a call to tell him we were there to work and on time. We then packed up our tools that we would need for the day and signed out the equipment and headed on our way. We started by moving some of the plants in pots that we had forgotten from Friday. Then started the task of weeding the prairie garden, we trimmed and cut back some of the plants as well. After that task was completed we made our way to the hatchery bed on the north side where we weeded, dead headed the daylilies, cut back some plants, and edged the garden.  Also we went for a walk to look for our perennial we were going to use for our research assignment.  We ended the day by cleaning all the tools and putting them back in there proper spots and signed back in all the equipment we used that day. We had no visitors it was a pretty lonely day. Finally we locked up gave Lucas a call to let him know we were headed home for the night.

 

Sunday September 21^st

 

 

                We started this lovely morning with a bit of scotch mist (that’s an understatement) We opened up giving Lucas another great good morning phone call. Packed up our tools for the day and signed out our equipment and started on our way only to notice that our tiny bit of Scotch mist had washed away some of the edge we had put on the hatchery garden. 

With nothing we could do about the edge we continued on our way to the bed in front of the hatchery and began our weeding. We almost finished the front bed weeding and edging it.

We then watered the planters and cleaned up around the yard where we had made a mess and cleaned all the equipment.  Then put them away and signed them back in. We phoned Lucas one last time to say our farewell to this weekend. Then locked up and headed home after a busy weekend to get some rest for the rest of the week ahead.