Sunday, September 30, 2007

First Work Day 2007/8 Plant Year

Today was our first official work day of the season, and what a busy day it was: cleaning, arranging and working with seeds. Volunteers included Nanci, John, Sarah, David, and Paul.
To get things started we moved the hutches out, which had been on their side protecting the oaks and dudleya. The seed cleaner, which we don’t know how to use, was moved out too. Nanci bumped up and planted a few remaining oak trees. All this to make room so we can work under the poly-film roof… in case it rains.
Sarah and David cleaned out and organized storage bins after 4 years. Paul and John cleaned and sanitized seed flats (15). Also Paul filled one of the cisterns with city water… in case we don’t get rain.
Finally David, Paul, John and Nanci helped do seed cleaning from this summer.
Next work day we’ll be able to focus on getting seed flats ready, so we can meet our goal of having container plants ready by the end of February.