Weekend practical maintenance Oct 25- 27 Jordan Milmine, Johnny Clarke, Ajay Percey Friday October 25th Fall is here and the Fanshawe Campus is in transition as the leaves begin to drop and winter approaches. Our day began planting a small patch of Japanese Forest Grass in our recently renovated garden in front of “T” building. With the seasons changing there is a lot of work to be done around campus before colder weather arrives and that began with pulling annuals and tidying up the many outdoor planters and several beds around campus. This was made easier with the use of the Kubota RTV due to the size of the campus. All in all the day was spent doing a lot of running around campus and cleaning up. Saturday October 26th – Sunday October 27th Saturday we unfortunately had a cold rainy day but we started our biggest task of the weekend which was the cleanup of the large beds outside the student union buildings and the R1 Residence. The first, and probably most time consuming step was to cut back the large plantings of Hostas which took a large portion of our time. We found the most effective method was to pull all the stalks into a group and cut them several at a time, similar to the method we learned for cutting back large perennial grasses. Once finished with the Hostas we had opened the bed up and could go through with weeding forks and cultivators to keep the weeds at bay. Sunday the weather was in our favour and we continued our cleanup around the student union and residence buildings. We began the day re-edging the beds once they had dried to prevent creating a muddy disaster. The next step was to prune the Euonymus by removing shoots that extended beyond the bed. We finished up the day cleaning fallen leaves and litter from the grasses and ground covers as well as some general clean up.