"Some of us actually work for a living," Tal snipped back at Sah, but bit back the rest of what he was going to say as Deimos and Delia walked in. He nodded a much more cordial welcome to them and, figuring they had enough hands on deck, gestured behind him to the overgrowth and general messiness.
"Figure we can harvest what's ready for LongNight, an' trim things back into shape while we're at it," he explained. "The caretaker's a friend of my family, an he's been down sick for awhile, so he asked us to help out." Somehow 'us' had gone from all the Seawrights to just the youngest. "I've got a list from 'im with instructions." He dug a somewhat grubby piece of paper out of his pocket and set it on a broad leaf from some Oerwoud plant so the others could refer back to it as needed.
"So, before we can harvest the fruit trees someone needs to cut the berry bushes back while they're pickin' the ripe ones off 'em. They're all gettin' pretty out of hand, an' they're pretty hardy, so don't be shy." He glanced back towards the vegetable beds with a faint scowl. "Speakin' of out of hand... Looks like some of the veggie rows are starting t'grow together an' get all mixed up. So someone needs to thin out the rows back into line, so we can tell what's what. An' then there's the herb tables." There were some near the front and others scattered throughout the greenhouse among the other plants, in varying light conditions; low, deep 'tables' growing all manner of culinary and medicinal herbs. "The labels are missin'. They should be in there, somewhere, just... overgrown or buried. So we need to harvest as many herbs as we can store to get them under control and find those labels." He had a dubious look on his face as he considered that task. He could barely tell his garlic from his green onions, much less his rosemary from his thyme.
"I'll start clearin' the stuff growing over the paths." He glared at the overgrowth from various shrubs, bushes, and short trees. "So you guys can work your ways back as you go."
This round there are three tasks:
1. Harvest berries and cut back the berry bushes so we can reach the trees later
2. Harvest vegetables and thin the rows back into straight lines so it's easy to tell them apart
3. Collect herbs while looking for the labels on each patch so we don't accidentally poison anyone with the wrong thing!
"Figure we can harvest what's ready for LongNight, an' trim things back into shape while we're at it," he explained. "The caretaker's a friend of my family, an he's been down sick for awhile, so he asked us to help out." Somehow 'us' had gone from all the Seawrights to just the youngest. "I've got a list from 'im with instructions." He dug a somewhat grubby piece of paper out of his pocket and set it on a broad leaf from some Oerwoud plant so the others could refer back to it as needed.
"So, before we can harvest the fruit trees someone needs to cut the berry bushes back while they're pickin' the ripe ones off 'em. They're all gettin' pretty out of hand, an' they're pretty hardy, so don't be shy." He glanced back towards the vegetable beds with a faint scowl. "Speakin' of out of hand... Looks like some of the veggie rows are starting t'grow together an' get all mixed up. So someone needs to thin out the rows back into line, so we can tell what's what. An' then there's the herb tables." There were some near the front and others scattered throughout the greenhouse among the other plants, in varying light conditions; low, deep 'tables' growing all manner of culinary and medicinal herbs. "The labels are missin'. They should be in there, somewhere, just... overgrown or buried. So we need to harvest as many herbs as we can store to get them under control and find those labels." He had a dubious look on his face as he considered that task. He could barely tell his garlic from his green onions, much less his rosemary from his thyme.
"I'll start clearin' the stuff growing over the paths." He glared at the overgrowth from various shrubs, bushes, and short trees. "So you guys can work your ways back as you go."
This round there are three tasks:
1. Harvest berries and cut back the berry bushes so we can reach the trees later
2. Harvest vegetables and thin the rows back into straight lines so it's easy to tell them apart
3. Collect herbs while looking for the labels on each patch so we don't accidentally poison anyone with the wrong thing!
