This club doesn't function without volunteers! Your time is needed and appreciated! Thanks!!
BL
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Plant Pick-ups
So, we have nearly 400 different kinds of plants in the greenhouse now. That's a LOT of plants! But the good news is we have MORE to go! If you have an afternoon free in the next few weeks, we have nearly 20 different places to pick up plants form. Please let me know!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Construction Update
Howdy ya'll,
Just doing my weekly duty here, but overall I would say we are doing well. LHGS set up today went very well in my humble opinion. Thanks to everyone who helped with that! We had some equipment issues at the farm, but I think all in all the situation was handled well. I owe an apology to everyone for a brain-fart that ended in an adirondack chair flying out of my truck on Farm Lane on the way to the Pavillion. The green chair sustained some injuries making it unsalable, but it should look nice in the office! I will try and bring some tools and get it back in a little better shape soon.
As far as tear down goes for the LHGS, the rack truck should be there (thanks Bob) by Sunday afternoon, so when the show is done, all hardscape materials need to be loaded on that truck, and someone will return it to the farm for Mitch and I to deal with on Monday or Tuesday. All of the plant material will need to be loaded in covered vehicles and moved back to the PSS greenhouses. The deck, chairs, benches, and heartwood table also need to make their way onto a truck heading to PSS. I will send everyone an email from the train to PLANET with any more details that we come up with.
For SS setup, I have it marked on my schedule, and will make some moves to get people and materials moving in the coming weeks, and for sure start work ASAP in the conservatory.
Marketing crew, please let me know if you need any assistance on the sign painting project!
Well, that is my longest post yet I think, so I will end there.
Have a great week and to everyone staying to help man the LHGS, THANK YOU!!
To the PLANET team, lets go for the gold!
Any questions, please do call me.
(231) 330-3880
Cheers!
Joe
Just doing my weekly duty here, but overall I would say we are doing well. LHGS set up today went very well in my humble opinion. Thanks to everyone who helped with that! We had some equipment issues at the farm, but I think all in all the situation was handled well. I owe an apology to everyone for a brain-fart that ended in an adirondack chair flying out of my truck on Farm Lane on the way to the Pavillion. The green chair sustained some injuries making it unsalable, but it should look nice in the office! I will try and bring some tools and get it back in a little better shape soon.
As far as tear down goes for the LHGS, the rack truck should be there (thanks Bob) by Sunday afternoon, so when the show is done, all hardscape materials need to be loaded on that truck, and someone will return it to the farm for Mitch and I to deal with on Monday or Tuesday. All of the plant material will need to be loaded in covered vehicles and moved back to the PSS greenhouses. The deck, chairs, benches, and heartwood table also need to make their way onto a truck heading to PSS. I will send everyone an email from the train to PLANET with any more details that we come up with.
For SS setup, I have it marked on my schedule, and will make some moves to get people and materials moving in the coming weeks, and for sure start work ASAP in the conservatory.
Marketing crew, please let me know if you need any assistance on the sign painting project!
Well, that is my longest post yet I think, so I will end there.
Have a great week and to everyone staying to help man the LHGS, THANK YOU!!
To the PLANET team, lets go for the gold!
Any questions, please do call me.
(231) 330-3880
Cheers!
Joe
Monday, March 7, 2011
Updates During Spring Break!
Hey everyone!
Hope you are enjoying your time off just as much as I am! I know I kicked things off right, going to bed by 9 pm on Friday night after a few tasty beverages, waking up at 7 am to drink a pot of coffee and watch fishing shows all morning, followed by a most wonderful basketball game in the afternoon.
Anyways, time to get to business I suppose.
The plans for after spring break are as follows:
MARKETING:
Please work with Jackie and Bridget to give a "How-to" sheet for those working to home and garden show, or something of an instructional nature anyways. Basically, I want people to know what it is they are exactly supposed to do. I will make sure to give Jackie hard copies of our current plant lists (not for people to take with them). Jackie already has an FAQ, but you may want to update or change it. Make sure we have a poster of some sort there too. Also, please check in with Sara to see how our facebook page is coming along.
In regards to the facebook page, if we do have a computer at the home and garden show, who's will it be???
We will need to have our t-shirts picked up on the Monday or Tuesday or our return to be distributed at our meeting on Tuesday night. Jackie and Sarah, please see Meghan to get the customary candy for the Slick Shirts folks.
When we return from PLANET, please pick a meeting where the A-frames are painted by your crew.
Can we also get an update on how you are coming with media connections at the next officer meeting after PLANET?
This committee has a lot of responsibility on their hands, and are doing an excellent job thus far!
Also, remind me about signage at our next officer meeting as well (In regards to annuals, perennials, sun, shade, etc).
CHILDRENS:
Christina recently sent me an email with the minutes of her last group meeting. It looks like they are right on track with things, having people getting times scheduled (don't forget to check with HOGS, let me know if you need contact info) to play with kids, assigning people to pick up food items and activities and such, all while being budget minded. I believe they are having another meeting sometime after break. Hopefully, updates can be posted here instead of in email. Other than that, this committee is on top of things.
GROWING:
Way to go everyone! Thus far, there have been very few casualties, and everything is looking great!
I know some of the stuff is getting big and harder to keep up on, but hey, that's why there's an entire committee to share the burden, right? Of course, there's always the problem with things getting watered too much as well, and yes this is always an issue, and one of the toughest ones to solve. It is very difficult to teach people to only water what needs watering, and get them to do it on a consistent basis.
I hope you enjoyed my email tonight, stating that you are currently caring for over 4300 plants, with many more to come!
These next few weeks will be the most trying for this committee as the temperature gets warmer, the sun comes out a bit more, and the days are longer, things tend to also dry out more.
To note: I will be ordering more pots and carrying trays on Wednesday. I have been told we still have a lot of hanging baskets left, so I will not be ordering any. We need to make sure we put our ivy geraniums in hanging baskets soon, and try to find the poles that go in our greenhouse for them. We may also have to hang some in the hall.
Don't forget to start checking stuff in the hoophouse as well.
Also, I am assuming we will be getting things like jack in the pulpits and trilliums donated this years (assuming from Ottawa-Kent nursery). Those need to go in the cooler until about two weeks before the show.
With the last pick up that we got before break that we put in the hoophouse, I went and trimmed everything but the Russian sage (ran out of daylight), and will finish that up after break. Hopefully everything hand;es the cold well.
Also, on the Tuesday before we leave for PLANET, we should probably pot up the kale, begonias, and most of everything else we have in plug trays.
Brenda just sent out an email to her committee, and I mentioned it in my email tonight, we have over 20 pickups coming in the next 6 weeks, plus a trip to Rakers.
CONSTRUCTION:
It is of vital importance that we get everything we need for the home and garden show there, before we leave for PLANET, so let's make sure that this gets coordinated somewhat in advance. Also, it is time to start making sure all of our stone, etc. is stacked and wrapped and ready to go. Please pick a time and day, and let's get a few of us out there to do this. Also, a meeting is needed to set up with Bill Chase as to how he wants us to handle moving things out an the new pad, he is pretty worried about things getting torn up and such. This needs to be a priority, and not put off until the day we are ready to go grab things.
We are able to start construction on March 30, so that week, we should start moving pallets into the head house and/or off to the side in the conservatory. Please take a representative of the Design team out to the hort farm to pick out what is needed if they cannot verbally tell you.
Finally, if it is still within your means, please have a plan for a bench ready and the necessary lumber for our PLANET construction team. It may be a good idea to coordinate with them the necessary tools.
A big thanks to this committee and its leadership for its superior organization and ability to do things quickly and efficiently.
DONATIONS/INVENTORY:
An email was just sent out, saying we have over 20 pick ups to go! And with the numbers I just punched out of our latest list, I am very much put at ease, per my semi-freak out at the last potting party.
I don't have much to say to this committee about things to do, but there are a few.
Most importantly, what is the status of our sod donation?
Really, that is about all.
DESIGN:
Please make sure that at least one of our designs is in color. Coordinate with construction on the stone you want brought in. Also, please let me know how much mulch we need, so I can make sure to have that delivered. It would be a good idea to over-estimate, just in case.
And with that, I am done typing for tonight, and will get back to you on Sunday.
Love, Peace, Chicken Grease!
Hope you are enjoying your time off just as much as I am! I know I kicked things off right, going to bed by 9 pm on Friday night after a few tasty beverages, waking up at 7 am to drink a pot of coffee and watch fishing shows all morning, followed by a most wonderful basketball game in the afternoon.
Anyways, time to get to business I suppose.
The plans for after spring break are as follows:
MARKETING:
Please work with Jackie and Bridget to give a "How-to" sheet for those working to home and garden show, or something of an instructional nature anyways. Basically, I want people to know what it is they are exactly supposed to do. I will make sure to give Jackie hard copies of our current plant lists (not for people to take with them). Jackie already has an FAQ, but you may want to update or change it. Make sure we have a poster of some sort there too. Also, please check in with Sara to see how our facebook page is coming along.
In regards to the facebook page, if we do have a computer at the home and garden show, who's will it be???
We will need to have our t-shirts picked up on the Monday or Tuesday or our return to be distributed at our meeting on Tuesday night. Jackie and Sarah, please see Meghan to get the customary candy for the Slick Shirts folks.
When we return from PLANET, please pick a meeting where the A-frames are painted by your crew.
Can we also get an update on how you are coming with media connections at the next officer meeting after PLANET?
This committee has a lot of responsibility on their hands, and are doing an excellent job thus far!
Also, remind me about signage at our next officer meeting as well (In regards to annuals, perennials, sun, shade, etc).
CHILDRENS:
Christina recently sent me an email with the minutes of her last group meeting. It looks like they are right on track with things, having people getting times scheduled (don't forget to check with HOGS, let me know if you need contact info) to play with kids, assigning people to pick up food items and activities and such, all while being budget minded. I believe they are having another meeting sometime after break. Hopefully, updates can be posted here instead of in email. Other than that, this committee is on top of things.
GROWING:
Way to go everyone! Thus far, there have been very few casualties, and everything is looking great!
I know some of the stuff is getting big and harder to keep up on, but hey, that's why there's an entire committee to share the burden, right? Of course, there's always the problem with things getting watered too much as well, and yes this is always an issue, and one of the toughest ones to solve. It is very difficult to teach people to only water what needs watering, and get them to do it on a consistent basis.
I hope you enjoyed my email tonight, stating that you are currently caring for over 4300 plants, with many more to come!
These next few weeks will be the most trying for this committee as the temperature gets warmer, the sun comes out a bit more, and the days are longer, things tend to also dry out more.
To note: I will be ordering more pots and carrying trays on Wednesday. I have been told we still have a lot of hanging baskets left, so I will not be ordering any. We need to make sure we put our ivy geraniums in hanging baskets soon, and try to find the poles that go in our greenhouse for them. We may also have to hang some in the hall.
Don't forget to start checking stuff in the hoophouse as well.
Also, I am assuming we will be getting things like jack in the pulpits and trilliums donated this years (assuming from Ottawa-Kent nursery). Those need to go in the cooler until about two weeks before the show.
With the last pick up that we got before break that we put in the hoophouse, I went and trimmed everything but the Russian sage (ran out of daylight), and will finish that up after break. Hopefully everything hand;es the cold well.
Also, on the Tuesday before we leave for PLANET, we should probably pot up the kale, begonias, and most of everything else we have in plug trays.
Brenda just sent out an email to her committee, and I mentioned it in my email tonight, we have over 20 pickups coming in the next 6 weeks, plus a trip to Rakers.
CONSTRUCTION:
It is of vital importance that we get everything we need for the home and garden show there, before we leave for PLANET, so let's make sure that this gets coordinated somewhat in advance. Also, it is time to start making sure all of our stone, etc. is stacked and wrapped and ready to go. Please pick a time and day, and let's get a few of us out there to do this. Also, a meeting is needed to set up with Bill Chase as to how he wants us to handle moving things out an the new pad, he is pretty worried about things getting torn up and such. This needs to be a priority, and not put off until the day we are ready to go grab things.
We are able to start construction on March 30, so that week, we should start moving pallets into the head house and/or off to the side in the conservatory. Please take a representative of the Design team out to the hort farm to pick out what is needed if they cannot verbally tell you.
Finally, if it is still within your means, please have a plan for a bench ready and the necessary lumber for our PLANET construction team. It may be a good idea to coordinate with them the necessary tools.
A big thanks to this committee and its leadership for its superior organization and ability to do things quickly and efficiently.
DONATIONS/INVENTORY:
An email was just sent out, saying we have over 20 pick ups to go! And with the numbers I just punched out of our latest list, I am very much put at ease, per my semi-freak out at the last potting party.
I don't have much to say to this committee about things to do, but there are a few.
Most importantly, what is the status of our sod donation?
Really, that is about all.
DESIGN:
Please make sure that at least one of our designs is in color. Coordinate with construction on the stone you want brought in. Also, please let me know how much mulch we need, so I can make sure to have that delivered. It would be a good idea to over-estimate, just in case.
And with that, I am done typing for tonight, and will get back to you on Sunday.
Love, Peace, Chicken Grease!
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