The Gardens of Fanshawe College Blog

Karima H. May 8^th, 2015

Over the week, this weather has been across the board. From rain to humidity you really don’t know what the next day will be like. The group of summer students and I started the season off by doing garden beds. We learned what tools we had to use which was all new to us, but very interesting to learn the common tools taken out to complete jobs.

 Merlin house is where the focus for garden beds was directed yesterday. Pruning, weeding and cleaning out dead material around the Lily’s is what was done to make the garden bed fresh for spring.

In the greenhouse, we have been very efficiently transplanting Marigolds so they are ready for our customers. Another job that was completed was taking cuttings from the False African Violet, so they can develop roots and later on be transplanted into pots once they have become established.

Overall this week has been a really good learning experience and it’s only going to get better from here on.