For a total of four hours (two hours during the mid-morning and another two hours during the mid-afternoon), the three of us have completed transplanting Maw’s orchids, which have not been blooming, sadly.
- Paw helped scrape of the yellow-color calcium deposits from the old plastic containers.
- Maw decided which orchid bulbs to trash and combine.
- I am merely a processing unit, using both hand to extract orchid plants from their plastic containers, dumping soil and bark into the wheelbarrow and scoop the dirt back into their containers, along with newly cleaned orchid plants.
The green plastic containers were brittle from the sunlight. The ocher-colored plastic containers are much sturdier and didn’t not need to be thrown into the recycle bin, unlike the green ones.
I blew the backyard free of dust, twigs, branches, dried leaves, bark and more dirt from underneath and in between the two hand-built wooden orchid `house` prior to Maw watering down her orchids. Paw scooped up the debris and piled those into the street for this Friday’s pick-up by the city.
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