DMC and JRow’s Landscape Weekend Blog

Friday April 11, 2014

The first day of our weekend landscape practical, we all dragged ourselves into the greenhouse where our wise leader (Jeff) gave us our weekend tasks. The first task JRow and DMC were rewarded with was dividing, spacing and evening out the grasses in front of the President offices. This job started out a little rough but once DMC and JRow got into the swing of things they just rolled on through the task. Once they left the grasses in the dust they moved onto the front of F-2 stairwell where they remove spent Bergenia leaves, cut back sedum, and cut back grasses to about 8 inches high.  By the time they finished with the F-2 stairwell it was time to call it a day. Overall, Friday turned out to be a great day.

 

Saturday April 12, 2014

 On Saturday, DMC and JRow decided to tackle the garden bed with the lady statue in front of the H-F-M bus loop. Some of the tasks were tying up the tall grasses behind the lady and cutting them with power shear to 8 inches then came the fun part of remove any spent foliage and racking debris out of the garden beds. With all the debris gathered from the beds it came to one full trailer full plus a trip with the RTV back to the compound.  It was a lot of hard work but DMC and JRow together can accomplish anything!

 

 

Sunday April 13, 2014

Sunday morning began by cleaning up the rest of our debris   from the H-F-M loop. Once finished that we moved to the twin garden beds in front of the office of the registrar. We cut back some Golden Japanese Forest Grass, Deutzia, and Aster. Once cut back the garden bed needed a thorough raking, at which point we removed all debris. Our final task was to use the backpack blower to clear all the walkways of gravel and sand. To finish off the day we pruned approximately 20 Dogwoods beside the walkway heading to K building.