[Garden] Planting Party

[gcmichal at envmail.uwaterloo.ca]

Don't get alarmed about any cockroaches at the greenhouse.  They won't  
harm the plants - they prefer other grub.  And they won't hitchhike on  
any plants brought home. They are actually quite shy and peaceable  
creatures and scuttle off quickly at the sight of jabbering communal  
gardeners.

- Greg  Quoting s3lyons at sciborg.uwaterloo.ca:

> We have access to the greenhouse workspace to do the planting.  That  
> way we don't have to be quite as concerned of spilling any soil etc.  
>  The manager really wants to minimize any potential external  
> contaminations coming into the greenhouse...hense she is giving us  
> pots and trays.  It might be easier to just meet at the WPIRG office  
> meet with the new planters and give everyone a rundown on the garden  
> and then walk over to the greenhouse to do the work.  The biology  
> greenhouse is attached to the biology building...located in South  
> Campus...it is the one you see adjacent to Needles Hall and Dana  
> Porter Library.
>
> I just received an email and found out that the greenhouse has  
> cockroaches.  They will keep them away from our plants but there are  
> no guarantees.  Saying this I hope we all recognize the importance  
> of not bringing any plants to our homes after wards.
>
> Steph
>
> Quoting Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>:
>
>> --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Alicia Mah <alicia.mah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The location of the planting party is the WPIRG office, SLC
>>> 2139
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>> Right, but maybe the concern is that we should be planting in the
>> greenhouse to prevent pathogen transmission?
>>
>> If that is the case then maybe one way to proceed would be to have
>> people meet at the WPIRG office and then send occasional caravans to
>> the greenhouse to do the planting.
>>
>> I am not sure what the Bio greenhouses are. Is this the greenhouse
>> that is on South Campus?  (I apologise if this was mentioned and I
>> missed it.)
>>
>> If the greenhouses in question are the ones that are on North Campus
>> next to our garden plot then maybe things get trickier, but it still
>> could be doable to send caravans. Many new people will not know where
>> to go anyways, so guides would still come in handy.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
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