First Day of Work

    I had my first day of work experience today. I am volunteering at a local nursery/shop called The Plant Barn. It is a small nursery that provides for the local community. They grow and sell a lot of different plants including fruit trees, shrubs, natives, vegetable seedlings, perennials and succulents.

    My first job was to make up some potting mix and use it to fill several trays of 6-cell punnets. I then had to prick out vegetable seedlings and plant them in the trays. I planted cauliflower, spinach, silver beet and pansys. I learnt that it is best to hold the seedlings by the leaf rather than the stem. Holding the stem can cause the delicate seedlings to bend and die. I used a simple pricking out tool which can be seen in the first photo, basically just a pointy stick!

Spinach seedlings ready to be separated

Halfway through

All done. Silver beet, cauliflower and spinach seedlings