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.