Plant Inventory 2008/9

Notes
- List is sorted by “Plant/Tree”, botanical name
- All plants are in TOLN potting soil, 9 month slow release fertilizer and mycorrhizae inoculated.
- What’s ready now: bladder pod, milk weed, CA fuchsia, Mustang mint
- The remaining plants will take at least 1 month to be ready to plant
- The tree’s will be over-summered in 5 gallon pots
- Estimate of additional plants: rose (90 more), mountain mahogany (40 more), elderberry (20 more), white sage (30 more).

Work Day, 2009#10 Bumping Up

Nanci, Linda, John, Sarah, David and try-it-out volunteer from Soka University: Megan Tan. Bumped up remainder of plants: CA rose, Monkey Flower, purple needle grass, bedding plant, elderberry, mountain mahogany, and white sage.
There is enough work for 1 more work day to bump up tree-shrubs. It will take at least another month until we can bump up the tree-shrubs to 5 gallon pots…. size of plant and/or time of year that critters don’t eat the tops of them.
We’re starting to see fungal (fungus) gnats on the seed flats. These guys promote “damping off”. Search finds that common source is over-watering.. also if you are using peat-based media, consider switching to one that only contains perlite and vermiculite. Good air circulation is also a deterrent.
The automated irrigation project is making good headway. Ranger Laura worked with Eagle scout group, which donated $600 to the Nursery for the automated irrigation system. Ranger Barbara has gotten the County work started to lay bibs to both structures.
Beth is going to do various testing on the prickly pear cactus seeds. This will save us trial-and-error. However I have not given up on flat we have.

Weather: raining during week and another storm coming. 160 gallons of rain water.

Work Day, 2009#9 Bumping Up

The volunteers included David, Linda, John, Nanci and newbie Stephanie (Soka student). We bumped up bush sunflower, elderberry, monkey flower and purple needle grass.
The Park had taken our 430 purple needle grass and planted them for re-vegetation around the Nix Center. In 1 or 2 work days we should be able to move our trees up to the 5 gallon containers. See slide show. (Click any pic to enlarge)