Today was fun... We had a good meeting in the morning with everyone. I thought it was interesting because it was all about the employees health insurance and things like that... After that I went and helped with the doves again in the Garden House and learned how to water all the pots in area 3!!!!
After that we went and worked a little with fertilizer... We basically fertilized all the turf except the Garden House Lawn. We used a fertilizer with 21-6-12 and spread it out by just throwing it or using a little hand machine that spits it out!!! This was fun and I did the wedding tears and the wedding pond!!! We talked about how later in the week we will be doing more so I will get more details on that probably Friday!!!
Gracy and I had a couple workshops today and those went really well!!!! The first was all about Power Tools... we learned about a 4 stroke engine and a 2 stroke engine. The 4 stroke is normally bigger, more powerful, and the gas and oil are separate... where the 2 stroke is lighter weight, easier to handle, and has mixed oil and gas... also here when they have 2 stoke engines the mix they use is 40 parts gas to 1 part oil.
We learned about the Blower, Stringline Trimmer, Honda Rotary Mower, and Trimmer Reel Mower. Anytime we use these we have to wear long pants, work boots, ear and eye protection. It was interesting to learn about how the engine works and where all the parts are and how they all work together!!!! We will have a test on everything at the end of the 10 weeks and I hope I will remember it and understand it better!!!!
After Lunch we had our second workshop and it was on using all the same power equipment as we learned about earlier in the day!!! It was fun to work with them and see how to make a lawn look really good!!!! I was not very good at the edger but I hear it comes with practice!!!!!
When we were finished learning about all that we went back and kept working on hedging the box woods in the walled garden... this was fun because I got a couple tips from another worker named Megan Richards (she is the assistant in the panel garden) and we did not finish but got a lot done!!! I am not very good at it but I keep trying and I am glad its a plant so it will grow back and not look too bad in the spring!!!
That was all for today!!!!
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