Back to school

Last week was the fall break and before that my work practise ended. I had been working at the schools garden since mid-June, because i had quit at the food co-op (Lahti ROK). These past six months were way more stressfull than i had expected, the work was physically quite hard, but that was okay, i liked it actually, it was the mental part that was difficult; completely new enviroment and work pace, new people, no friends to talk to and i was dissapointed, that i had to quit at the first place and then come work at the school.

I was expecting more outdoors work here at the school, but mostly i was at the tomato room harvesting, taking out the lower leaves and letting down the plants when they grew or, at the salad/herb room sowing, planting, harvesting, bagging and watering, or cleaning the cold room and filling the vegetable shelves at the store. But i did get to plant some herbs and vegetables to the samplefield, thin out the carrots and harvest beetroots and leeks.

I liked packing the cucumbers and planting the salads, i got really fast at both, but i hated to harvest and tidy up the leeks when they were all muddy, there was so much work at both of those jobs.

 

This photo is from the ROKs greenhouse when all the tomatoes and cucumbers are still tiny.