Good morning flowers! Welcome to a new week! We have guest editors this week - our greenhouse guys and gals are doing this week's post! Over the weekend, our greenhouse group babysat their sprouts. Sprouts for this weekend were sunflower seed sprouts and sweet peas. As a continuation of the seed growth from the weekend, the team started broccoli sprouts in the classroom as the ones from last week were too moist which led to mold. The new process creates more drainage, involves plastic wrap with holes for more air, and less light during the initial growing process. Here's hoping this resolves our mold issue - to be continued. We will see as the week progresses. If you want to start your own broccoli sprouts, we liked this site: www.wikihow.com/Grow-Broccoli-Sprouts An update on our 1st tower, we have added new radish and spinach because they weren't growing too well. We also removed the sprouts/roots from an old onion that was trying to create new onions in Catheryne's pantry and planted them in to the tower. This one is a total experiment and, although looking like alien hooves, we're winning. 6-plex, here we come! We officially assembled the grow lights - there are now 3 working lights to be turned on once the seeds are in. Despite the three story climb, greenhouse participants hiked 12 rounds of full watering cans to start the watering process of the 6-plex tower. We won't plant seeds or give worms a new home in the 6-plex until the tower is fully watered, which we will do tomorrow (Tuesday). We asked the residents and employees what kind of plants they would like to see in their fancy new tower and they requested mostly salad building plants. When we came back to Challenge, we started considering what salad greens would be best in the 6-plex tower. Some ideas we had were spinach, sweet potato, leeks, romaine (and several other) lettuces, dill, onion, tomato, garlic (for the vampires), radish and broccoli. Yum yum! Regarding our composting processes, the Bokashi is going very well as the right kind of mold is growing which has taken down the kind of sickly, pickly sweet smell of rotting food. Our vermicomposting seems to be having some issues which led to panic from certain greenhouse members. The greenhouse participants spent some time this morning looking up how to manage red mites in the bin. We've discovered a method of getting rid of the mites using bread soaked in milk in the top bin. It should attract the mites to the bread which allows us to simply remove the bread AND the mites. The reason we want to get rid of the mites is that they make our wormy worms unhappy and leads to lower worm appetites. We shall see. If you're having issues with your own vermicomposting bin, check out Google as there are lots of options or go directly this site: www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/vermicomposting/pests-in-worm-bins.htm
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about usWe are part of the Employ Ability Skills Program with Challenge Disability Resource Group. We take part in a 12-week program that allows us to learn new skills and foster our interest in growing our own food organically. Archives
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