April 16, 2017 Weekend Duty

Brett Blakey

Ben Adams

Scott Pollock

Friday

On Friday, Tim showed up at 8 am to walk us through what we had to do. So, we started our maintenance on Residence Circle. To start the day Cassandra (who was making up a day) started to clean out the evergreen garden bed of garbage and weeds. After she was done she used a Dutch hoe and made an edge. Ben and Brett started pruning the Taxus along the wall and making sure they were all around the same size.  Scott cleaned up garbage and pulled weeds ahead of us. We also cleaned up around the trees taking weeds out and fluffing up the soil.          

Saturday

On Saturday Brett and Ben started by cutting back the Karl Forester grasses to about 6” in height. Scott continued to remove garbage and weeds from the gardens. From there we moved into G courtyard.  There we weeded and edged all the gardens to make them look nicer and have a defined edge. On our way out of the courtyard we pruned the Weeping Mulberry, removing dead wood and suckers.

Sunday       

We actually did all of our jobs on the list Tim gave to us so when we did our last compost run we saw that the wind from the day before had knocked over a tree in the compound. We decided to finish felling the free with tree saws.