Week 12

Week 12:  I pulled weeds, watered, and harvested some cabbage, an eggplant, some beans, three radishes, and two sunflowers today.  My tomatoes looked really bad and inedible.

Week 11

Week 11:  Today I pulled weeds, fertilized, and harvested some of my vegetables.  It's cool to take home vegetables that I grew, but I am kind of disappointed
in myself.  I was hoping I'd do a better job.  Better luck next time.

Vegetables I brought home: Cabbage, beans, lettuce.  I'm cooking the cabbage tonight.

Week 10

Week 10: This week we only pulled weeds and watered.  Most of the work seems to be done.  My eggplants are growing well, but my tomatoes seem to be lagging behind a little bit.

Eggplant

Tomatoes

Week 9

Week 9:  Today there were a lot of weeds to pull, since we didn't go outside last week.  I planted some more broccoli, lettuce, and a sunflower to fill out the rest of my rows.  After that I watered my plants and put up more support for my tomatoes.  I noticed some tomatoes growing, as well as eggplants and beans, which is really cool.  I took a picture of the eggplant but forgot to take more pictures.

Eggplant

Week 8

Week 8:  This week it was too rainy to go outside.  During the lecture, we reviewed how to calculate amounts of nitrogen needed for plants, as well as the time needed to run sprinklers in order to properly water a plot.  We also discussed broccoli and cabbage, and the fact that no one would want to buy a twenty pound cabbage if they were only going to eat a pound of it.  So essentially, it's pointless to produce too large of vegetables.  Also, yellow broccoli apparently does not taste as good.

Week7

Week 7: Today I pulled weeds, planted broccoli, cauliflower, and another vegetable.  I can't remember what it was.  I put manure fertilizer and watered as well.  Overall, my vegetables were all doing pretty well.  The tomatoes looked a little dry, so I made sure to give them extra water.

This is the broccoli

This is the vegetable I can't remember

This is the cauliflower

This is an overview of my plot

Week 6

Week 6:  Today I pulled weeds, panted two sunflowers, watered, and sprayed pesticide on the leaves.  The beans were growing well, and the lettuce is too.  The tomatoes were doing okay but looked a little dry.  The eggplants looked very good.

Overview of plot

Beans

Eggplant

Sunflower

Tomatoes

Week 5

Week 5: Today I pulled weeds, fertilized, watered, and added support to my tomato plants.  One of my lettuce plants died, but the other two are growing very well. My beans are growing quickly.   I noticed that my tomato plants seem to be growing more slowly than other people's plants.

My tomato plants are getting taller, so I added more support.

I pulled quite a bit of weeds from my plot.

The space in the middle is where the dead lettuce plant was.  The other two pants look very healthy.

Week 4

Week 4: All of the plants are growing well, and seem to have received a lot of rainfall in the past week.  The soil was very moist.  Today I fertilized the plants with manure.  I dug a trench on both sides of the plants, filled them with the manure, and covered the trenches with dirt.  I also pulled weeds.

This is an overview of my plot.  The beans in particular are growing very well.

This is a close-up of some of the beans after digging a trench on either side to put in the manure.

This is a side view before putting the manure in the soil by the plants.

Week 3

Week 3:  I pulled some weeds from the plot.  The beans have grown quite well.  I also put fertilizer and pesticides on the plants, as well as water them.

The first row of beans grew excellently

This is the second row, which grew well.

The lettuce and cilantro are doing well.

There were a few weeds, which I pulled.

The leaves on a few plants were slightly brown.

Week 2

Week 2:  The plants I have planted are growing well, and there are no obvious signs of distress.

Stakes were put up to support the plants as the grow larger.

Three types of beans were planted: Bush beans, Italian Snap Beans, and Black Lake Bush Beans

The tomato plants grew considerably!

NO SIGN OF PESTS

First Day Of Planting

Tuesday, September 1, 2015-Today was my first day of planting.  I planted 3:

Sunny Tomatoes

Black Beauty Eggplant

Georgia Collards