Things to Do this week - Week of Nov 10

There're a few things we need to get done this week.

• Planting flowers for the plant sales next year (Winter semester).
• Finish potting soil
• Putting up injectors
• Deciding which plants members will care for based on your preferences.
  

The reason for having the plant sales is we need to generate some money to support the greenhouse project. There will probably be some vegetable sales as well, but we are not sure what the yield will turn out to be, as this is our first trial.

We also need to finish potting more soil and get things ready for transplant later. The plants are germinating quite well and some of them are growing very fast, such as the cucumbers and some of the herbs. We won't do any transplanting this week, since it's too soon for cucumbers and the recommendation is to wait until the first true leaf emerges. So expect to transplant those cucumber next week (Week of Nov 17).

The layout for the greenhouse (i.e. plant allocation) is posted on the blog under "greenhouse vegetable update". Please check it out to get a general idea of what we'll be doing. If you have any questions or suggestions, drop me a line.

In addition, we need to decide which plants each member will be responsible for. There are a few concerns that this will limit the experiential learning. I feel that it would be better to become knowledgeable about one type of plant, and then teach this to the rest of the group, rather then try to learn everything individually. We can have experiential learning sharing sessions later and share what we've learned together. Furthermore, I've reserved some extra space for experimental trials as well. Hopefully, this will give everyone the opportunity to learn as much as they desire, while still keeping the workload manageable. We want to make learning fun for everyone.

We are going to have a meeting this Tuesday to finish plotting and seeding (~2hrs) from noon-2pm. The meeting must be this Tuesday because the header room (where the coolers are) will be closed to put in new flooring and will not be reopened until next Tuesday. So, please come out if you can.

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send me an email.

Here are some photos of the plants so far









Peter Le.