Dan Grady & Ben Hickey
We began our day at Cuddy Gardens writing our CLT exam, tired as we were; we had some tasks to do. So we were off on the RTV to locate Cannas, Colocasia and Pennisetum plants. We had some troubles finding those plants, so we moved on to cleaning up the cactus bench being careful where we put our hands. We then gave the poinsettia there blackout period. It was a short work day but lots of work to do tomorrow. We Started are first long work day, and like any other morning the poinsettia’s needed to get some sunshine, there’s lots of sun so it’s looking like it will be another nice day.
We started deadheading the poinsettias being very careful as they are delicate, the next task was cleaning out the courtyard, lots of sweeping, but we found giving it a pressure wash gave it that nice clean look that it needed. We ran into a little issue with temperature with the poinsettias, that being how hot of a day is was becoming and having the roof open made the greenhouse temperatures more high than they should be, we called Mike and we were told to give him updates throughout the day. He reassured us that the sun will heat up the greenhouse rapidly on warm days, but should not affect the crop. We finished up the day by doing a big clean and blacking out the poinsettias. It’s been a long day we will definitely have a good sleep tonight.
Our last day in the Greenhouse, the weather was a lot different then yesterday, it’s cold and rainy but that’s Mother Nature. As usual we opened up the blackout for the poinsettias there is a definitely a big change in temperature from yesterday. We decided to clean up the compound and organize it hopefully the weather will hold. We finished off the day by doing a big clean sweeping and spraying down the floors.
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