tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280066812011-06-07T23:45:45.604-07:00School of Horticulture is offering a new course called: Organic Greenhouse Crop Production. This blog has been created to share information between the public, students, and faculty on the progress of the year.School of Horticulturenoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006681.post-44551877048454417252007-03-29T15:48:00.000-07:002007-03-29T16:10:13.159-07:00

So, another week has gone by. The greenhouse is begining to look like a living place now, with plants of all kinds bursting into life.Some of the plants in our original plantings have not been doing so well. Thats largely because they were 'left overs' from another crop, and so got off to a bad start anyway. Psychologically scarred, we felt it was time for some new plantings. Cucumbers were the

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This last week, the class went on field trip to 'Glorious Organics', in Aldergrove, BC.After visiting the greenhouse and the packing area, host Susan Davidson explained the crop rotation and planting systems used in Glorious' weekly production of high quality, nutritious salads and edible flowers. After tasting many of the (so-called) weeds that are part of the salad mixes, many students we left

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Progress is being made with the crops, and there are plenty of new flowers in the tomatoes. In fact, the tomatoes seem to be doing well in all the growing media, but the cucumbers are struggling. Some new cucumbers have been sown in the propagation house, and will be planted this week. Soil analyses showed that most media were lacking nitrogen and had high pH - to be expected really. However,

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Ann and Jonathan take some soil samples to find out how the nutrients are doing a few weeks after setting them up. Some plants are looking yellow, others are doing just fine. We are even starting to get our first semi-organic fruit, this is very encouraging!Meanwhile, Jonathan and Tiaan grapple with covering the outside compost beds to stop them getting too wet in the glorious Vancouver liquid

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Some organic tomato seed was sown into organic potting compost and bio-degradeable pots. Hopefully, these young plants will be ready for the School Spring Plant Sale, April 21st. Tiaan wrote out labels for the tomatoes, lettuce and other organic seedlings. Shouldn't get confused now............. Mmmmm. Meanwhile, some other plants were set out in the new growing beds, which were now complete

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On Jan 19th, we added some new workmates - a bunch of Red Wrigglers in their new homes to get our composts going.

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One of the first things to do was to build the raised beds. Steve set to work with some dry stones for walls, and others set up wood-framed beds.With plenty of team work and activity, the growing area soon began to take shape.

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