Information for Greenhouse Volunteers

Processes

• Notes for Greenhouse Leads - Overview of daily tasks, handling donations, propagation, team work. Some overlap with some documents below.

• Opening and Closing - How to open and close the nursery for sales

• Donations - How to handle donations

• Maintenance - When stuff breaks

• Volunteer Responsibilities - at-a-glance summary of tasks for greenhouse volunteers

• Greenhouse Volunteer Handbook - Comprehensive guide for greenhouse volunteers. Note that parts of the handbook overlap other content on this website.

• Supplies - Supplies are stored in various locations in the Pumphouse and Potting Shed. For additional supplies, email supplies@sanmateoarboretum.org.

• Pricing and Purchasing Policy - how to price plants and accessories and policy on volunteer purchases.

• Soil Orders - when and how to order potting soil.

• Propagation History Update - use this form to record what you propagated in the propagation history database.

• Plant List Lookup - click on this link and download the content into a file on your device. The file should be named PlantListLkup.html. Then click on that file to search the plant list database. 

• Propagation History Lookup - click on this link and download the content into a file on your device. The file should be named PropHistLkup.html. Then click on that file to search the propagation history database.

• Complete Propagation History - click on this link to view the Google sheet with the complete propagation history.

• Propagation Database User Guide - Describes how to search the master plant database, the propagation history database and how to add to the propagation history after you've done some propagation.

About those plants

• Plant List - List of plants offered at the nursery along with some additional information about them

• Native Plant List - List of native plants offered at the nursery along with some additional information about them

• Propagation - How to propagate from cuttings

• Potting - Which pot for which plant, how to label, price and place them on sales floor

• Houseplant Instructions - General instructions for houseplants in greenhouse

• Common Houseplants - List of common houseplants and how to use them

• Care for Common Houseplants - How to care for common houseplants, e.g., water and light needs

• Orchids - Orchid greenhouse instructions

Decorative ceramic pots are stored in two places. Small pots are inside the greenhouse, larger pots are outside on a table just north of the greenhouse. If you need holes drilled in a pot, leave it on the work table in the pumphouse garage. 

Miscellaneous

• Maps - Layouts of nursery and greenhouse

• Point of Sale System - How to use the Point of Sale system

• Timesheet - How to use the on-line timesheet to record volunteer hours (ToDo)

• Greenhouse Temperature Monitoring - how to record greenhouse temperature data, online form

• Slack for Nursery Teams - a brief tutorial about using Slack for nursery teams