Hey there!
As Mitch said, we got a good start last week. Tomorrow the plan is to put the finishing touches on the deck and heartwood table, as well as assemble the last 5 a-frames. All materials are in the greenhouse from my truck as of this afternoon, so we should be ready to rock and roll after the formalities at tomorrow's meeting. I will meet with Sarah about painting the a-frames, and will try and get a plan figured out for cleaning and clear coating/water sealing the deck to get rid of the foot prints ASAP. I believe thats all for now, lets keep up the good pace and make this the best show yet!
See ya'll tomorrow!
JS
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
What a tease!
Boy oh boy! Isn't this weather something? It almost makes you feel like the show is less than a month a way. Thankfully its 2 months away... 8 weeks to be exact.
So, most of you have not been too active on here, and I do not blame you, as there is nothing to remind you to be active... Well I suppose there is always your sense of responsibility as an officer or committee chair, but who am I kidding, I am hardly responsible enough to take care of my car keys and wallet, let alone trying to remember where I left the remote control.
A few things need to be addressed at this time to keep everyone in the loop, so here are the updates I have for all ya'll.
Growing:
Things are seeming to be going fine, plants are growing well, though occasionally there are issues of drought stress. Things that need to be watered daily, or close to, include the sweet potato vine, diascia, callibrachoa in 3-4" pots, and probably our petunias and impatiens as well. There are also plug trays D108 that need to be monitored daily. This Sunday, we will be bringing in around 200 shrubs to start forcing, and they will be placed in C105 on benches. All big pots (1 gallon or bigger) should be moved to the hallway from the greenhouses after the orchid show next weekend. One other thing to keep an eye on are the callibrichoa and petunias, as they were pretty cholorotic by the time of the show last year, thoughts led to they weren't getting the nutrients they needed for the fertilizer water. Also, there needs to be better communication between the grow team and inventory team, along with myself regarding pot sizes and prices, and this needs to be done before Wednesdays. I will discuss more in detail at our next officer meeting. Finally, please make sure that the hoop house and the plants we have in the hall outside the hoop house are being watered. While they are at low temps, on sunny days, they get pretty warm, and start to dry out.
Marketing:
All updates and immediate concerns were covered in the recent post.
Although, I would like the committee to work with Sara Marcucci to make sure photos are being taken at our spring show activities, including potting parties.
Design:
The conservatory design is essentially done on a computer, just needs a few more finishing touches and to be printed. The estimate fore sod is 1400 sq. ft. We will need a general estimate for mulch soon. Make sure to start looking at the plants we have in the houses to see what you want where, so we make sure to have that set aside for you! Also, Jackie talked with a local glass artist yesterday, who will be putting his work in our show, and giving us a 10% cut of his sales (while this is not our typical contract stipulation, we get additional advertising from him, and further beautification of the display).
Donations/Inventory:
I trust that everything is falling into place. I am highly anticipating the wave of plants soon to arrive! There will be another trip to Raker's next week. Please make sure to read in the grower's update.
Children's:
Nothing new happening here.
Construction:
This past week, the deck, potting bench, and A-Frames were built. Now we need to have stuff coated/painted. Please see the marketing team for painting of the A-Frames. I believe there are a few more frames to finish as well. Don't forget to start thinking about getting out the the hort farm to get the rest of the block stacked that needs to be, and meet with Bill when we want to move stuff.
Keep up the hard work, we are almost there!
MZ
So, most of you have not been too active on here, and I do not blame you, as there is nothing to remind you to be active... Well I suppose there is always your sense of responsibility as an officer or committee chair, but who am I kidding, I am hardly responsible enough to take care of my car keys and wallet, let alone trying to remember where I left the remote control.
A few things need to be addressed at this time to keep everyone in the loop, so here are the updates I have for all ya'll.
Growing:
Things are seeming to be going fine, plants are growing well, though occasionally there are issues of drought stress. Things that need to be watered daily, or close to, include the sweet potato vine, diascia, callibrachoa in 3-4" pots, and probably our petunias and impatiens as well. There are also plug trays D108 that need to be monitored daily. This Sunday, we will be bringing in around 200 shrubs to start forcing, and they will be placed in C105 on benches. All big pots (1 gallon or bigger) should be moved to the hallway from the greenhouses after the orchid show next weekend. One other thing to keep an eye on are the callibrichoa and petunias, as they were pretty cholorotic by the time of the show last year, thoughts led to they weren't getting the nutrients they needed for the fertilizer water. Also, there needs to be better communication between the grow team and inventory team, along with myself regarding pot sizes and prices, and this needs to be done before Wednesdays. I will discuss more in detail at our next officer meeting. Finally, please make sure that the hoop house and the plants we have in the hall outside the hoop house are being watered. While they are at low temps, on sunny days, they get pretty warm, and start to dry out.
Marketing:
All updates and immediate concerns were covered in the recent post.
Although, I would like the committee to work with Sara Marcucci to make sure photos are being taken at our spring show activities, including potting parties.
Design:
The conservatory design is essentially done on a computer, just needs a few more finishing touches and to be printed. The estimate fore sod is 1400 sq. ft. We will need a general estimate for mulch soon. Make sure to start looking at the plants we have in the houses to see what you want where, so we make sure to have that set aside for you! Also, Jackie talked with a local glass artist yesterday, who will be putting his work in our show, and giving us a 10% cut of his sales (while this is not our typical contract stipulation, we get additional advertising from him, and further beautification of the display).
Donations/Inventory:
I trust that everything is falling into place. I am highly anticipating the wave of plants soon to arrive! There will be another trip to Raker's next week. Please make sure to read in the grower's update.
Children's:
Nothing new happening here.
Construction:
This past week, the deck, potting bench, and A-Frames were built. Now we need to have stuff coated/painted. Please see the marketing team for painting of the A-Frames. I believe there are a few more frames to finish as well. Don't forget to start thinking about getting out the the hort farm to get the rest of the block stacked that needs to be, and meet with Bill when we want to move stuff.
Keep up the hard work, we are almost there!
MZ
Marketing
Hey y'all,
So in case you're both deaf and blind and haven't heard about or seen them, I've gotten all 14,000 of those postcards printed in a nice bright orange so people will see them. I've also figured out exactly how to print the labels and have begun grouping them by building so I can hand them out at meetings and people can sit and label while listening to presentations and the different buildings won't get all messed up. I'm aiming to do 2,000-3,000 at the next meeting, but need into the filing cabinets first to get out more labels haha. I'm guessing we got about 700 or 800 done at the last meeting with only a few people working on labeling. I'd like to thank those of you who did it because not a soul complained about it!
Also, have one small poster for the conservatory that Matt Kolp went and got printed. I'm working on making a PDF to print of an even bigger one to hang up because I think that would be nice. I was originally going to print a white poster with some color in the pictures, but I went into the headhouse and noticed that all the walls are beige, so I'm thinking a nice obnoxious bright orange poster in there might be just the thing we need to catch everyone's attention. :) So sometime between now and Monday I'll work on making it all black and going to Kinko's or handing it off to Matt again to go to Kinko's to get printed. Then I'll start working on smaller signs to post around the greenhouses and notices to put up in PSS.
I'm working on getting the tshirt design put together, hoping to have it done to take to the printers next Friday! That way we'll have plenty of time to get in the shirts and hand them out before the Lansing Home and Garden Show in March.
Finally, I've just started writing the promotional article talking about the show and alumni's thoughts about it. Officer's, if you would like to say anything about the show and how it's been the best/worst/stressful/great/real-world-preparing thing you've done, email me! Your name will be famous :)
Well, that was long (sorry!) but I think that's everything. Happy weekend!
Sarah
So in case you're both deaf and blind and haven't heard about or seen them, I've gotten all 14,000 of those postcards printed in a nice bright orange so people will see them. I've also figured out exactly how to print the labels and have begun grouping them by building so I can hand them out at meetings and people can sit and label while listening to presentations and the different buildings won't get all messed up. I'm aiming to do 2,000-3,000 at the next meeting, but need into the filing cabinets first to get out more labels haha. I'm guessing we got about 700 or 800 done at the last meeting with only a few people working on labeling. I'd like to thank those of you who did it because not a soul complained about it!
Also, have one small poster for the conservatory that Matt Kolp went and got printed. I'm working on making a PDF to print of an even bigger one to hang up because I think that would be nice. I was originally going to print a white poster with some color in the pictures, but I went into the headhouse and noticed that all the walls are beige, so I'm thinking a nice obnoxious bright orange poster in there might be just the thing we need to catch everyone's attention. :) So sometime between now and Monday I'll work on making it all black and going to Kinko's or handing it off to Matt again to go to Kinko's to get printed. Then I'll start working on smaller signs to post around the greenhouses and notices to put up in PSS.
I'm working on getting the tshirt design put together, hoping to have it done to take to the printers next Friday! That way we'll have plenty of time to get in the shirts and hand them out before the Lansing Home and Garden Show in March.
Finally, I've just started writing the promotional article talking about the show and alumni's thoughts about it. Officer's, if you would like to say anything about the show and how it's been the best/worst/stressful/great/real-world-preparing thing you've done, email me! Your name will be famous :)
Well, that was long (sorry!) but I think that's everything. Happy weekend!
Sarah
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Construction!
Hey all,
I gave Mitch a design sheet for the deck and A-frames today in class (I was drawing instead of taking notes-sorry Bert!). Hopefully this will get approved at tonight's officer meeting. If approved, I will procure materials this week, then the plan is for me to get everything cut to size and bundled into kits so assembly is easy as pie! I will construct a sample a-frame for reference by those assembling, and that way I can head up the deck build while the a-frames are being put together. I plan on working on construction at next weeks meeting, since I didnt see this in time to be prepared for this week, sorry about that! Once our deck and frames are built, construction will see a lull in activity until LHGS.
See ya'll tomorrow!
JS
I gave Mitch a design sheet for the deck and A-frames today in class (I was drawing instead of taking notes-sorry Bert!). Hopefully this will get approved at tonight's officer meeting. If approved, I will procure materials this week, then the plan is for me to get everything cut to size and bundled into kits so assembly is easy as pie! I will construct a sample a-frame for reference by those assembling, and that way I can head up the deck build while the a-frames are being put together. I plan on working on construction at next weeks meeting, since I didnt see this in time to be prepared for this week, sorry about that! Once our deck and frames are built, construction will see a lull in activity until LHGS.
See ya'll tomorrow!
JS
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Updates
So we are officially in the month of February, and things are really starting to heat up... well for Spring Show anyways.
As of this afternoon, we will have our first pick-up from Rakers, of which we will be potting next week. We have a shipment of seeds from Ball, and one from WildType as well, that need sowing. Jason, I will let you decide on what gets sown from Ball.
Sarah is going to get 14,000 postcards ordered in the upcoming days, and will also be making posters to hang in the head house to advertise for the show. It would be good to have a set of postcards in the head house as well (ask Dan B. for the best location) so people can take them when they are at the orchid show on Feb. 26-27. Sarah, please be sure to also get people's t-shirt sizes at the club meeting. Make sure to also get key faculty members, Dan and Katie from the head house, as well as HOGS.
On our website, there is a PDF for both woody and herbaceous plants that tells the genus, species, cultivar, common name, size of pot, price, and the quantity in stock we have.
For the Lansing Home and Garden Show, as of the next officer meeting, Jackie will be placed in charge of organizing the staffing of that event. I will provide her with all of the necessary information. The design is also completed for this, and will be pretty simple to set up/tear down... hopefully. Jackie will also be in charge of the construction of this event, along with Joe, who is responsible for the movement of the heavy materials. Sara M., is there a specific plan for Joe to use for the potting bench going to Heartwood, or should he come up with his own?
At Wednesday's meeting, Joe can hopefully start working on the construction of the A-frames.
Last week, there were sign-up sheet passed around for people to join committees again, did all of the committee heads get theirs?
The second round of calls for donations will start next week, and the following week, we should have some dates set for pick ups. By Feb. 21, the call needs to be made for sod.
So far, everything seems to be being well watered. It appears that Jason's watering log sheet in C105 is doing an ample job. I was admittedly skeptical about a log at first, due to its failure in the past, but we have had quite the responsible crew this year, BRAVO team! Don't forget Jason and Jamey, that spring break is about a month away, and we will need things to be watered, as well as during PLANET.
Keep up the great work everyone! Make sure you send in your committee updates this week, even if it is just a one liner!
MZ
As of this afternoon, we will have our first pick-up from Rakers, of which we will be potting next week. We have a shipment of seeds from Ball, and one from WildType as well, that need sowing. Jason, I will let you decide on what gets sown from Ball.
Sarah is going to get 14,000 postcards ordered in the upcoming days, and will also be making posters to hang in the head house to advertise for the show. It would be good to have a set of postcards in the head house as well (ask Dan B. for the best location) so people can take them when they are at the orchid show on Feb. 26-27. Sarah, please be sure to also get people's t-shirt sizes at the club meeting. Make sure to also get key faculty members, Dan and Katie from the head house, as well as HOGS.
On our website, there is a PDF for both woody and herbaceous plants that tells the genus, species, cultivar, common name, size of pot, price, and the quantity in stock we have.
For the Lansing Home and Garden Show, as of the next officer meeting, Jackie will be placed in charge of organizing the staffing of that event. I will provide her with all of the necessary information. The design is also completed for this, and will be pretty simple to set up/tear down... hopefully. Jackie will also be in charge of the construction of this event, along with Joe, who is responsible for the movement of the heavy materials. Sara M., is there a specific plan for Joe to use for the potting bench going to Heartwood, or should he come up with his own?
At Wednesday's meeting, Joe can hopefully start working on the construction of the A-frames.
Last week, there were sign-up sheet passed around for people to join committees again, did all of the committee heads get theirs?
The second round of calls for donations will start next week, and the following week, we should have some dates set for pick ups. By Feb. 21, the call needs to be made for sod.
So far, everything seems to be being well watered. It appears that Jason's watering log sheet in C105 is doing an ample job. I was admittedly skeptical about a log at first, due to its failure in the past, but we have had quite the responsible crew this year, BRAVO team! Don't forget Jason and Jamey, that spring break is about a month away, and we will need things to be watered, as well as during PLANET.
Keep up the great work everyone! Make sure you send in your committee updates this week, even if it is just a one liner!
MZ
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