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Blazing Star Workday Report: August 27, 2010 by Sandy Wilson
by Sandy Wilson
We had a good day last Saturday. The team, consisting of GCMN members Diane Fisher, Millie Morgan, Lan Shen, Sandy Wilson, and non-members Angie Martinez and Dawn Smith potted up
83 gallons of Liatris,
68 Big Bluestem and
17 Brownseed Paspalum.
After some of us lunched together at Luby’s, Lan and Sandy returned to visit with Dave at the Maintenance Yard. He very nicely OK’ed a watering method with a semi-permanent hose and timer to be installed ASAP. He also OK’ed another Bay for plant storage as needed and will help install a shade cloth donated, by Diane Kerr, over the present bay.We also received another smaller load of top soil, but unfortunately it is the same as the last load. Mostly ground up tree slash with little real dirt.
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Addendum by Lan Shen
Thanks to all who responded to the email asking for help.
Automatic watering system - !!YEA!!: The Monday morning following our workday, Dave DeMaster (head of the Maintenance Facility at 6520 Almeda) & Sandy put together an automatic watering system. Thanks to Dave, we were able to do that. He did not just give us permission and suggestions on how to do it, he and Sandy actually installed it together. Dave has been super helpful - thank you Dave! I am sure that Marjorie Jackson, Diane Kerr, Patricia Stone, and David Alvarado (of the maintenance facility) who had also helped water this summer are also ecstatic. Just as we finished installing the watering system and was testing, it poured! Doesn't that always happen :)?
We don't need the cattle panels anymore. Sandy pointed out that if we do the enclosure outside the maintenance facility, we can not drive up to it with our workday haul and would need to hand transport by wheel barrow or wagon. (Many thanks to Robert Killian who had offered to donate several and Bill Petty who had offered to save us some, if people bring them to the recycling center where he works.)
Thanks to Diane Kerr for supporting our project with the GCMN board and to the board who agreed to provide us funds for the automatic watering system. Diane also donated a shade.
Kelly Walker & Linda Knowles donated 2 kiddy pools. We used Kelly’s to soak the transplanted gallon pots of Liatris that were brown on top, after being rescued and heeled in a tight clump in 5 gallon pots for several weeks. That allowed these pots to have moisture over the weekend, when we could not water. We still need to pick up Linda’s kiddy pool; we can use it the next time we rescue.
Comment regarding the “top soil”: Sandy suggested that we email Starbucks and thank them for their used up grinds. At least a third, but probably much more than that of the plants at Prairie A have been grown in soil mixed liberally with Starbucks coffee grinds to provided nutrients (nitrogen). Recently, the Starbucks in the Barnes & Noble at Post Oak and Westheimer (5000 Westheimer, Galleria area) have been saving their grinds for us, so if you are ever there, please thank them.
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Comment by Diane Kerr on August 31, 2010 at 4:04pm -
I went out to check on the prairie potted plants today, and it was so nice to see water on them and the concrete ground!
Diane
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