Post by bluesboy on Jul 14, 2008 3:45:20 GMT
Hi All,
I'm just posting to give a little update on Meadowview, this time sans the Sarrs. This is kind of exciting though, especially if you are a Meadowview intern- this past Saturday, 7/12, we had a large number of some of Meadowviews best and most prestigious volunteers to help us interns, both me (nick), and rebecca elliot (chillyconcarnivore). What did we do?
Using the concept of cooperation, combined with technical fluency, we were able to make up over 225 pots, more pots produced at Meadowview in one day than ever before! And all in about 3 hours!
Now they're just waiting to be planted with divisions from our vast storage of delectable Sarracenia, and be put into the commercial beds, waiting for some lucky person. What this also means is that Rebecca and I have a whole lot more pots waiting than we could have pulled off in 4 or 5 days! So tomorrow let the potting madness begin!
Here's a pic of most of the pots that we made-
It takes a lot of time to make pots, because peat and sand must be mixed to the proper ratios for the particular plants(higher organic matter for some, etc), the right amount of water used to moisten the mix (not too much, not too little), then the bottom of the pot is lined with pine straw drawn from out woods behind meadowview to keep the soil from escaping the drainage holes, and to a lesser extent, maintaining the acidity of the media and growing environment. The soil mix is added to the pot, packed very hard to avoid future soil 'slumping'. After this the pots are placed on the ground next to each other, and watered from above a number of times over the next 24 hours, to maximally hydrate the media, and get the pots ready for the plants.
So this is a kind of 'behind the scenes' look- while it's fun to post Sarr. pics, this gives you the kind of idea of what else has to go on for those Sarracenia to have such big smiles on their faces when photographed. Thanks to all volunteers, we pulled off a record, which I hope we can continue to meet! Enjoy, best, Nick 'bluesboy'
I'm just posting to give a little update on Meadowview, this time sans the Sarrs. This is kind of exciting though, especially if you are a Meadowview intern- this past Saturday, 7/12, we had a large number of some of Meadowviews best and most prestigious volunteers to help us interns, both me (nick), and rebecca elliot (chillyconcarnivore). What did we do?
Using the concept of cooperation, combined with technical fluency, we were able to make up over 225 pots, more pots produced at Meadowview in one day than ever before! And all in about 3 hours!
Now they're just waiting to be planted with divisions from our vast storage of delectable Sarracenia, and be put into the commercial beds, waiting for some lucky person. What this also means is that Rebecca and I have a whole lot more pots waiting than we could have pulled off in 4 or 5 days! So tomorrow let the potting madness begin!
Here's a pic of most of the pots that we made-
It takes a lot of time to make pots, because peat and sand must be mixed to the proper ratios for the particular plants(higher organic matter for some, etc), the right amount of water used to moisten the mix (not too much, not too little), then the bottom of the pot is lined with pine straw drawn from out woods behind meadowview to keep the soil from escaping the drainage holes, and to a lesser extent, maintaining the acidity of the media and growing environment. The soil mix is added to the pot, packed very hard to avoid future soil 'slumping'. After this the pots are placed on the ground next to each other, and watered from above a number of times over the next 24 hours, to maximally hydrate the media, and get the pots ready for the plants.
So this is a kind of 'behind the scenes' look- while it's fun to post Sarr. pics, this gives you the kind of idea of what else has to go on for those Sarracenia to have such big smiles on their faces when photographed. Thanks to all volunteers, we pulled off a record, which I hope we can continue to meet! Enjoy, best, Nick 'bluesboy'
