Yesterday the weather was really weird. We saw sunshine, really strong wind, rain and hail. All in the same day.
Me and Hanna were copping and pruning hydrangeas yesterday. We also were weeding and tidying up the border.
Tinja removed old and bad looking plants and rearranged the pot flower display. She also removed already grown chillies so that they wouldn’t take all the energy from the plant. Removed tip growth bud from chillies so that the plant will grow sideways.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
Jeps, sitähän viime viikko lähinnä oli 😀
Viikonloppu mulla oli onneks vapaana. Perjantaina kävin tutustumassa vähän Honselersdijkin keskustaan (muuhunkin kun supermarkettiin).
Lauantaina illalla grillattiin ja sunnuntai meni lähinnä nukkuessa 🙂. Puoliväli harjoittelusta on nyt takana ja kivaa on ollut!
Jutta
//Jeap, title sums last week pretty well 😀
Luckily I had again a free weekend. On Friday I did a little sightseeing to Honselersdijk’s centrum (this time not just to supermarket).
On Saturday evening we had a barbecue and on Sunday I slept (yeap, pretty much the whole day). Now half of the training is done and it has been really nice experience so far!
I was planting in the walls yesterday. It’s not common even in England. First I removed old soil out of the horizontal pipes. Then I put new compost in, the same that we use for potting. Then I did normal planting which was hard because the angle.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
Last weekend we went to get a coffee (hot chocolate and tea) at a café and to the the cinema. We also visited local library, small and a cute one. And there was free wi-fi! <3
On Friday we went to the café at town. Me and Tinja got a hot chocolate and Janita took a tea. All shops and cafes close pretty early, around 5 so it’s a bit hard to go anywhere after work (because we leave work 16.00 and by bus we are at town around 16.30-16.45.
On Sunday we went to the cinema at the Bognor Regis (it takes 20 minutes by bus). Me and Tinja went to see Zootropolis and Janita went to see Batman v Superman. Movie tickets were cheap there, on weekends £3,50 and Monday to Friday only £2,50.
We accidentally took the sweet popcorns, never going to do it again! It was weird that they sell alcohol at the cinema..
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
This week went quickly as usual. Lots of working.
Hanna has been working with Shaun, the kitchen gardener. Mostly planting lettuce and onion. Sowing carrot, beetroot and lettuce. Supporting peas and beans with string and hazel branches. Keeping tidiness in vegetable display in a glasshouse. Taking bad leafs off and taking pots out if they are already flowering.
Tinja has been working with Anne and planting lilium etc. weeding. thinning side-shoots and tying in cucumbers. Cut some branches. Making support cages for herbaceous.
Janita has been helping Laura, glasshouse gardener. Replanting orchids, planting Gesneriads rhizome (they looked a bit like worms) potting fuchsia and begonias. Checked succulent plants of mealy bug and aphid. Moving strawberries to a different glasshouse.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
We have been 2 weeks (soon 3) in England now and it have went quite good and really fast.
We have eat the English breakfast at 12 o’clock afternoon in restaurant, went to Brighton doing shopping, saw some live music and met friendly people.
Brighton was beautiful, although all our time went shopping that day so we need to go there again to see more of the beach. To get to the Brighton from Chichester we needed to take the bus to Little Hampton and from there a bus to Brighton. The journey took about 3 hours but it was worth it.
Yesterday when we were going to work, our bus didn’t arrive. Apparently it broke on the way. So we didn’t arrive to work on time, we called that and explained it. The next bus was on time and we get to work only a half hour late.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
Viime viikolla kävin torstaina Alkmaarissa tapaamassa muita samaan aikaan kanssani Hollantiin tulleita harjottelijoita. Reissu oli mukava ja Alkmaar ihana kaupunki! Tapaamisen lomassa tutustuimme myös kouluun jossa se pidettiin, oli tyypeillä pikkasen hienot puitteet!
Reissuilu jatkui lauantaina. Tällä kertaa vuorossa oli Delft. Tutkin katuja, kiipesin kirkon torniin ja vein itseni maailman suloisimpaan vaaleanpunaiseen kahvilaan 🙂 Aikani pyörittyäni kävin vielä leffassa katsomassa uuden Viidakkokirjan, oli muuten hyvä!
Seuraavana päivänä otin puolalaisten kämppisteni ja heidän ystäviensä kanssa suunnaksi Keukenhofin puutarhat (http://www.keukenhof.nl/en/). Siellä oli pari kukkaa…ne oli aika nättejä.
Tällä viikolla töissä on edessä “punainen viikko”, mikä tarkoittaa paljon tekemistä ja pitkiä päiviä. Ikävöin Fazerin sinistä tsemppaamaan… 😉
Mukavaa viikkoa!
Jutta
//On thursday last week I went to Alkmaar to meet other trainees who came to the Netherlands at the same time with me. It was a nice trip and Alkmaar a lovely city! During the meeting we also did a little tour in school where it took place. They really have quite nice settings there!
I continued my trip week on Saturday and went to Delft. I explored the streets, climbed to the big churches tower (ough the stairs) and took myself to the sweetest pink coffeehouse in the world 🙂 After having enough of wandering I went to the movies to see The Junglebook. It was so good!
Next day my Polish roommates and their friends let me come with them to the Keukenhof gardens (http://www.keukenhof.nl/en/). There were couple of flowers…which were pretty nice 😉
This week in work we have the “red week”. That means we have long days and lot to do. I miss Fazer’s chocolate and it’s boosting abilities…
Have a great week!
Jutta
Using tools are part of our work routine. We use them everyday.
Here we use a paper to check when we take some tools out and then check it again when we return them.
Hand tools (that needs to be checked)
Hori Hori
Is used in weeding because it’s sharp and long. It can also be used in cutting. It’s a traditional Japanese tool.
Jakoti Shears
It has long cutting edge. It’s used to cutting. We used it to cut hydrangeas.
Secateurs
Used to cut smaller branches and shoots.
Snips
Used more in glasshouses and cutting flowers and pot plants.
Penknife
Can be used to take cuttings and it’s handy tool to keep with you, all the time.
Saw
Really useful in cutting trees. It cuts when you pull it not when you push it. Very sharp, be careful.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
Yesterday we were pruning Salix alba vitallina ‘Britzensis’ trees and copping Hydrangea. We also were pollarding Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’.
Cutting Salix was interesting and new to us. We cut all last years’ growth off. They may look a bit weird now but it maintains the shape of the tree and it doesn’t grown too big. It was traditional way of cutting so that the sheeps wouldn’t eat the branches.
Salix alba vitallina ‘Britzensis’ is producing haze of striking red winter shoots. It usually is coppiced every 2nd or 3rd year. Here they do it every year.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –
Why?
If the pot is too small and orchid have grown too big for it. If they are really old and if there is dead parts that you want to remove.
How?
First take the orchid you want to replant off the pot, carefully. You can divide the plants by cutting them parts. As big as you want.
Make orchid growing media
4 parts bark
1 part perlite
1 part charcoal
Mix them together and put small amount to bottom of the pot. Orchids prefer little bit smaller pots.
Put the orchid in the pot and fill rest of the pot with growing media. Planting has to be quite tight.
– Hanna, Tinja & Janita –