5.31.17
Began the morning in the best way – hand-weeding the geraniums… roughing up the ground with my bare hands, releasing the geranium fragrance into the cool morning air.
Liza was able to get an irrigation pipe set up in the fields at the land trust which is in some ways a relief – the plants are obviously going to need water.. but she’s still not sure about overhead watering once the flowers have blooms.
We weeded two beds at the land trust. At this point in the season we are trying our best to stay on top of weeding while both the weeds and crops are small. Once the flowers are bigger and can hold their own it will be less important.
We headed over to August Farm for lunch and then moved on to greenhouse work.
Liza and Marianne’s dining room is also part plant nursery. All of the freshly seeded flats and plug trays are taken up there and put on shelves under UV lights to help protect from mice digging up the seeds and to monitor temperature (and just for space). The mums that we began propagating a couple of weeks ago are in the dining room in a makeshift moisture chamber. We had tried to take mum cuttings earlier in the quarter and they were deemed a failure, however, that judgement may have been premature. It seems that the cuttings may just look wilted for a while as their energy is put into making new roots.
After lunch I worked on up potting the snap dragons into plug trays and helped Mar move the sheep structure.
At the end of the day Mar and I were able to talk about evaluation writing and more details about the summer flower harvest position.
6.1.17
Met Liza at the land trust for morning harvest of sweet peas and bachelor buttons. As with most flowers, the standard is a long, straight stem, with the foliage removed the the bottom 4-ish inches of the stem. We had planned on doing a bit of weeding but it started to rain so we just headed back to the farm.
At the farm, I worked on up potting and seeding.
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