About last week

Last weeks Monday i finished making the little shelf in the woodwork classes.
Tuesday was all work, no theory classes. We planted some summerflowers in pots, like hundreds of them, and then sowed some herbs, such as dill and basil.

On Wednesday we had english, it went fine, but after that we were supposed to have some theory about raising chilis with Tiirikainen, but we had to go plant some tomatoes in the greenhouse, i wasn't dressed properly for that, i wasn't expecting any physical work for that day, so i was a bit pissed. And i was kind of pissed off also because we have so little time with Tiirikainen, only two hours a week, and then we have to go do something else during her lessons... After that we had some finnish lessons, where we did nothing, the teacher was arguing with couple students about what is a vocational skills demonstration and what is a competence-based qualification, because they didn't know the difference, so we just sat there doing nothing.

On Thursday morning we had Pessis classes where we listened about plants that bind nitrogen and nurture soil. After noon we had bussiness classes where we did some unfinished assignments. 

On Friday we had Pessis classes again, but this time it was about seedlings and sapplings. We went to look at the seeds of flowering quince that we had put in the cooler in November, i think, and they had germinated. In November the seeds needed a cold-treatment, so we had put some fine sand in a plasticbox and we moistened it and sowed the seeds in there and then covered it with plastic. Some of the seedlings had a disease in their roots caused by Fusarium-fungus and in the box there was also some grey mold, but many of the seedlings were fine, so we planted the healthy ones in seedlingtrays. We also put some cuttings of saintpaulia in pots to grow. After lunch we had fruits and berries -classes where we presented the assignments, that we had done about different plants. I did it about appletrees and how to defend them from pests, diseases and weeds using organical means.


...I'll edit this at home, and add some of my photos of those germinated seeds of flowering quince...

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edit: 9.3.2013

Well, here's the photos that i promised.

 Here's a couple of seedlings with the root disease. The roots are clearly brown and droopy.

And these are healthy seedlings, the roots are white and firm.

Here's the box where the seeds had been for five months. I had remembered wrong, we collected and sowed the seeds in the beginning of October, not November.

And here they are, almost a week later, in the seedling tray.