Katie tries her hand at Cultivating...

No two days are the same at Shropshire Petals, especially when it comes to April; there's a whole host of orders as wedding season starts up, the men are busy drilling in the fields and we're all prepping and planning for the busy harvest ahead.  It's the key time to start crossing you fingers for some sunshine and rain to spur our flowers on.  If it could just be sunny all day and then rain at night I'm sure that's not too much to ask from the British weatherman!  

My Day was spent looking through job applications, it's very exciting thinking of who might be joining us in 'the petal shed' and we can't wait to welcome the next member of the team.  We're still very much open to applications so if you think you've got what it takes we'd love to hear from you! I've also been helping with the orders today, for a Friday it's been really busy, no rest for the wicked!  Then just as the post goes out the phone goes again...

"Katie, it's Michael, bring your camera outside"

So off I go, little did I know I was trying my hand at cultivating.  It's nice to see how much goes into the job and when you get the whole experience watching the petals from field to pack and then off to a customer who sends in a great confetti shot it being used it just makes it a great place to work. 

So cultivating is all about preparing the land, keeping your lines straight so the cultivator doesn't go off course.  There's three of them in the same field today, Michael's been driving a Challenger, then Shaun is following him and Rob is drilling the land they have prepared.  The drilling is done by GPS to get it spot on but Michael's job of cultivating requires a steady hand.  I took to the wheel to try my hand at driving and from the view out of the back I don't think my lines are too bad...    

Michael and I had a good chat about all the job applications we have received so far and I left saying he's very welcome to a 10 minute chat on the tractor again, any time!   

So we all know what I'm going home tonight saying...

"I got to do some cultivating today..."   Ahhh, all in a days work at Shropshire Petals!  

Love as always SP x x