Originally Posted by Steelsheen

After adding a few more to his notes Vickers pushed himself off the work table he was leaning on and dug into his book bag for his dragon hide gloves. He can see where the sacks are for the hippogriff dung, and started to walk towards it, collecting a bucket and a trowel along the way.

When he's scooped up enough of the fertilizer into his bucket he started to look around the second thing he needed. Not having spotted these he neared the Herbologist and murmured "Professor Bentley, are we supposed to transfigure something to use as stakes or we have a ready supply somewhere?"

Originally Posted by xXxPandora

"They ALL deserve and require love and care. Would you apply the same theory to humans, or even to yourself?"

Beezus couldn't help but chuckle as the Herbology Professor answered Oakey. Yeah, funny Gunter. Of course it was necessary. What did he even thought of the term 'general plant care maintenance' if there was no caring involved?

It was true, the list was indeed endless and cyclical. Beezus nodded at this. It's relevance wasn't limited to only the plants to entirely everything.

Then they were teamed according to their house and given their own corresponding task. Ravenclaws were to fertilise and stake the plants that needed those forms of care...obviously. Hearing the Professor's cue, Beezus pulled her dragonhide gloves up to her wrist, flexing her fingers first before approaching the sack of hippogriff dung at one corner of the greenhouse. With a trowel, she scooped a fair amount of the fertilizer into the small pail and carried it off towards the flowerbeds...passing Vickers talking with the Professor as she went. Oh, yeah. The stakes, she was wondering the same thing. She stopped beside the two, "I was wondering about that too Professor."

Because there wasn't any stakes at the corner where the planting tools ought to be.

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

"Oh wow!! Great thanks. If you don't mind, I can continue pruning. Yeah it is hot in here. Must be the Professor's way of keeping the greenhouse humid."Alyssa smiled at the Prefect. "I'm going to make my way down the next row now." Alyssa told Belle.

So far Alyssa had any use to wear her dragon hide gloves, but as she got closer to the plants that had thorns and had the nasty disposition of taking nips out out of someone when they weren't careful, she took her gloves out of her back pack and slid them on.

Making her way to the next rows of plants. These ones definitely had thorns on them and so Alyssa, even though she was wearing dragon hide gloves, slowly approached the first plant and trying to avoid getting scratched by the thorns, gently pulled off the dead leaves and pruned off the dead stems to make place for new stems and leaves to grow. Placing the dead leaves and cuttings into her bucket walked to the next plant and to her dismay realized that it was a Fanged Geranium.

"Hey do you think the Prof will mind me using the numbing spell on the Fanged Geranium? Let me ask her right now." and immediately raised her hand.

"Uh...Professor. For the Fanged Geraniums, are we allowed to temporarily stun them or numb them to make them drowsy just long enough for us to prune and water them?". Alyssa was thinking of using the Viro Torpeo spell.

Alyssa decided that she would skip that plant for now until Professor Bentley gave her permission and moved onto the next plants. Gently picking out the dead leaves and cutting off the stems off the next row of plants, Alyssa slowed pruned each plant with her pruners until they looked nice and neat.

"There you go. You look all nice and pretty now. I bet you feel good having all that dead stuff off you." Alyssa whispered to the plants hoping that nobody heard her.

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

While Belle was watering the plants that Alyssa had pruned, she turned and told her, "Belle, I'm going to head over to the darkest area of the greenhouse to water the fireseed bushes. I'll be back soon." She went over to the tool shed and took out a watering can.

Alyssa then made her way to the darkest area of the greenhouse, petted the ivy that was helping to keep the fireseed bushes protected from the directed rays of the sun. "Hello Wasima. It is good to see you again." She smiled at the ivy before making her way to the Fireseed bushes that seemed to flourishing very well under these darkened conditions.

She pulled up her dragon hide gloves and reached down to feel the soil of the bushes. They seemed a little dry. "No worries my little ones. Soon you'll have all the water you need."

Unlike the other regular plants, Fireseed bushes needed boiling water in order to keep their bushes burning. So first Alyssa filled up the watering with water by pointing her wand inside it and saying, "AGUAMENTI". Soon water was steadily flowing out of her wand into the bucket. Alyssa continued to let it flow until the bucket was almost full and then ended the spell by saying, "FINITE."

Now it was time to warm up the water. First she took out her goggles and placed them over her face to protect her eyes. Next she pointed her wand inside the watering can. Rotating her wrist and making a circular motion with her wand, she traced a circle inside the watering can and she said "CHAUNDESIS" to heat up the water.

She waited until the water started to bubble and steam was rising from the water, before she holstered her wand again. Picking up the watering can with both hands, she slowly carried it over to the pot, lifted it up and started watering the watering. She poured a small amount of water on the soil taking great care that she only poured enough to moisten the soil because she didn't want to drown the seed. Once she determined that the soil was sufficiently moist, she walked over to the next fireseed bush and poured water on it too.

Once her watering can was empty, Alyssa filled the can up with water again and cast the spell again to boil the water before continuing to water the rest of the Fireseed bushes. She repeated the steps of filling the watering can with water and then heating up the water a few times, and then watering the bushes until all the fireseed bushes had been watered.

Once she was done, Alyssa removed her goggles and went back to join Belle. She could help Belle water the rest of the plants they pruned before returning back here to prune the fireseed bushes if it need to be done.

When she went over to join her friend, she raised up her hand to ask Professor Bentley another question.

"Professor Bentley do we prune the Fireseed bushes the same way as we would the rest of the plants in the greenhouse?"

Originally Posted by Tegz

Having cleaned a pretty big patch now, West checked over and continued pulling out the teeny little weeds that had escaped his notice, again looking at each one and having a bit of a wonder about it. He would ask a bit later, yes? For now though the mess of weeds needed to be composted or something. Heck might as well ask about stuff now.


He put his hand up.


"Professor do we compost the weeds and stuff instead of chucking them out? Where do you want us to put them? Oh and, do any of these weeds have other uses?" He tried to put his thinking into words. "Like, if weeds grow around a magical plant, or around a herb that has a certain property, and its stealing all the nutrients and good stuff, does it pick up any like.... good properties for itself? And what about in potions or something?"

Just stuff to know. Stuff about weeds. Since he was busy weeding and all. And then, what was next?