How to Build a Nursery
(Do Not Try This at Home)
It's time to start building stuff.
This is our third nursery, so we pretty much know what we're doing by now.
This time we want everything to be first class. Here's our first shade
house.
July 15
Just kidding. We had to have a place to protect some small plants for a few
days. Below is greenhouse number one. Another important point to
remember when building your nursery is to make sure you have enough kids
around to do the work. Management's primary responsibility at this
point is to tool around on the golf cart taking pictures.
July 25
Another sunny day and the first shade house goes up.
August 1
We're rolling now. This is going to be the main growing area.
The truck driver who brought the
stone was afraid that he'd get stuck in the mud. We just couldn't
stand to wait any longer so we convinced him that there was no danger. I
can't believe he made it, but fortunately, he didn't get stuck and we got
our first seven loads of stone. What we didn't tell him was that we
got the Penske stuck in the mud not long before this and the tow truck that
came to pull us out got stuck too. I swear, it really happened.
They had to call another tow truck to get the first tow truck out of the
mud.
That's the first of 12 hoop houses that will go up in
this area.
August 4
And as usual, just as we were making some progress, here comes the rain
again. We were working on the third house in this group when it started
pouring.
August 8
So far, we have one shade house up... It's hard to tell by this
picture, but believe it or not this thing will hold 16 thousand quart pots
when it's full. That will be as soon as we find the rest of the plants we
brought.
Plus 6 hoop houses, a propagation house,
and a storage shed. We're on our way. We've got more hoop houses to
put up, and another shade house, but notice the clouds coming in over the
mountain. It's going to rain again.
But it's finally starting to look a
little bit like a nursery.
Click here for a progress report
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