We have lights! I finished assembling the grow lights, after going to Home Hardware to purchase one, teeny tiny little screw which was missing from the shipment. Although the photo from the last post shows two sets of stands, only three of them (pictured below) are staying at our office and the other three are going to our residence where we assembled the second tower. The lack of updates for the second tower are due to the fact that we have delayed planting until the new year so we can have time to orient our new garden participants, as well as residence staff, to the tower and how to manage it. Setting up the lights will also occur in the new year as the lights need seeds to serve their purpose. Now that the lights are plugged in, to the power bar I had to purchase for the three separate plugs for each light, we have a Christmas rave happening in our staff room. Happiest of holidays and more to come in the New Year! Much love, from the Challenge Employ Ability Skills Program!
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Hello friends! This week has been quite busy with wrapping up the work from last week and finalizing this program. The greenhouse work has slowed to a near stop due to the program ending, and us therefore losing our program participants who did the majority of the work. However, we have received our grow lights and assembled them. Check them out! I was waiting on a part and have yet to finish assembling the final piece. I have also posted some photos of our growing progress. Grow little lettuce sprouts, grow! Cheers everyone! Good morning, It's a frosty -32 degree morning so what better time to update our followers! As I mentioned the other day, we received our second Garden Tower 2 spaceship a few weeks ago. Yesterday we assembled it at its new home! One of our residences has taken responsibility for the growing machine. Our part involved assembling the tower and providing the initial dirt. We will hold on planting until the New Year to ensure that our worms and seeds are properly cared for as the team gets used to the new project. We're also waiting until it warms up, just a touch! Electronic heat makes for a dry home. Pictured below - the assembly of our second tower, complete with instructions for assembling the bottom of the tower (these come with the purchase). Not pictured below are the additional tools we needed to properly assemble the tower.
Good work Greenhouse gals! SEEDS ARE IN! As of today, our seeds are in our tower. Check out our organization plans in the slideshow below. The first photo shows our visual planning for the tower as to where to plant things which involved a lot of research on companion planting. The second photo shows our label maker work in making sure everyone knows what is planted, where, and how to care for them. The third photo, although already planted, is the sprouting progress for our garlic! They're reaching up! The last two photos are Moravian stars which was a Christmas project completed by the girls on top of all their hard gardening work! They're so lovely! If you want some more tips on how to plant in your garden tower, check out www.gardentowerproject.com/ for resources and personal reviews and comments. The layouts that we worked off of are linked here: vertical-layout-emptytower.pdf AND vertical-layout-salad-tower__1_.pdf The second tower layout is for if you wanted to do a specific plan, such as a salad tower, whereas our planting was specific to the types of seeds we felt like growing first. The choice is yours! Have a great weekend! Hello everyone! It's a frigid -28 here in the capital of the Yukon so production has slowed significantly. It doesn't help that the sun hasn't made any efforts to wake up yet either... makes getting to work on a day like today a struggle in itself. But we're here! Yesterday and today we started looking in to planting seeds in our tower. I have included a link to the page (below) where we found some tips for our specific tower type (Garden Tower 2). I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions about how best to plant these guys! We are doing research on our own but feedback is always welcome. The link here is likely the protocol that we'll follow. www.gardentowerproject.com/news/towerpower-blog/entry/salad-tower-planting-plan-design Right now we're looking at some toy choy, radishes, and lots of leafy things. ALSO! LOOK HOW AWESOME YOU ALL ARE! And unique! We're only in week two or three of the blog and we're already getting site views! How exciting! Hello friends. Look at all of the seeds we've received!! The girls have halted production briefly as our other work sites are needing some help getting things finished for the holiday markets but we have our seeds ready in the background for this week. The greenhouse ladies have also been hard at it doing some out-of-garden garden work, such as winterizing our tower space. In our slideshow below I have pictured our window plastic, for reducing the cold drafts from our windows, and our new heater which keeps our tower space at a balmy 20 degrees celsius. Nice warmth for our little growers. Hope you are all having a fantastic start to your December and we look forward to sharing more of our progress with you! Our little garlic sprouts are excited to see you! And to keep you up to speed, this (the pine cones) is what the ladies have been doing the last couple of days in preparation for our annual Christmas luncheon! |
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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