We have a TOWER!!!! This morning our lovely worker bees assembled the tower and filled it with soil. The process today started as filling one section with soil, watering it, then adding the next level. However, this quickly changed to adding a section, adding soil and repeating, then watering several sections at once. The girls did the bottom half, then the top half to make it slightly easier to manage. The whole process took about 2 and a half hours so we could make sure that we did everything right and fully watered the tower. We used about 20 watering cans worth of water (pictured below) for the whole thing so hopefully it's nicely saturated now! And.... we only used one bag of pre-mixed starter soil! Some instructions for assembling your own garden tower, which also has pictures, can be accessed by clicking this link: gardentowerproject.com/resources/garden-tower-instructions Aside from this, when using a bit of extra soil from a different container, we found the mouse friend of ours who has been living in the nice, warm dirt. We shall be relocating him soon as he will eat our plants, should he stay with us. We chatted with our woodshop associates who have agreed to help us set up the grow lights... more to come in this aspect! We have had so many questions and inquiries about our tower already! It is situated in our staff room due to space constraints and we have given many descriptions regarding the purpose of the tower. We have also offered each of our departments the opportunity to pick some seeds for the tower, once we start planting. We have a wide variety of requests from herbs such as dill and cilantro to favourite veggies such as radishes. We are incredibly excited to start growing soon! This afternoon, we pick and order seeds!
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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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