Good morning sprouts! Our week this week has been very sprout oriented so join us! Firstly, this week we received our seed donation from West Coast Seeds!! We received packages of seeds such as some edible flowers, such as lollipop mix and viola, some herbs and spices, such as basil and stevia, and some more lettuces, such as arugula. Thanks West Coast Seeds! If you want to order your own seeds, the link below will take you there. www.westcoastseeds.com/ On Tuesday we took pallets up to the winterized greenhouse for our buckets as we have loaded over 90 buckets of dirt so whomever is moving those may need help. We are waiting on about 30 more buckets to finish this project and are simply needing Canadian Tire to get in their next shipment before moving forward. On hold for now. MITE UPDATE: we have used some more bread submerged in milk to prevent reproduction of red mites which seems to be working, although not done yet. We also noticed red mites in our garden tower so are using the same process to get rid of these little vermin. Make sure to take a couple steps back from your gardening projects to make sure there aren't any bug issues like we're experiencing. Regarding bugs, we have also seen some fruit flies wandering around, trying to steal our bounty, and have put in a mason jar with soapy water and extra virgin olive oil, covered with a tight plastic seal, to entice and trap these little bugs. Regarding the second garden tower, after all the watering we did on Monday, when we checked on the tower on Tuesday the drainage tray was completely full of water. We took that water and used it to do our watering again so dumped the water on the top rung to prevent overflow and save water wastage. We will need to water the tower again before planting seeds. We took a power bar over to the 6-plex so they can plug in all their lights but the tower still needs an extension chord, in order to plug everything in, and some extra soil for the top rung of the tower as it's not quite full. The 6-plex has also given us their final selection for seeds so we will be finalizing our growing plan for the second tower this afternoon. Our sprouting has been in full effect this week as we started some mung beans and some kamut sprouts (also known as wheat-something-or-other). We also started a sprout experiment, called red perilla, which is supposed to take 1-2 years to sprout. Hopefully exciting for our future participants. We've also had the opportunity to taste our beautiful sprouts growing from last week's planting. These tasty ones are sunflower seeds and sugar peas. Yum! Our grow lights in the classroom have now been put to the test and are currently encouraging our little sunflower seeds and sugar peas. Note: some of our activities were delayed because we were kicking butt at FoodSafe. Our greenhouse team is now certified to serve you food (for the next 5 years)! Wah pow! We contract our trainers through a local organization called the Yukon Tourism and Education Council (YTEC) so if you're needing certification, perhaps because you want to cook and serve the awesome things you're growing in your own home, check them out: yukontec.com/ Until next week little sprouts!
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2/8/2017 03:54:25 pm
Yay! Thank you for the response Caroline! You're our first official commenter. No questions at the moment but we refer to you often throughout the blog so we will let you know whenever we reference your expertise. Thanks again and talk to you in the future!
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