Crazy week

Last week we planted seedlings in our beds which means we have been watering a lot more than usual. This is because the early plants need a lot of water in their roots to be able to go through the process of photosynthesis. My group planted broccoli, bell beans, turnips, and potatoes. I can't wait to see them grow!

This week was a bit crazy with the whole bomb threat, which meant we only had one day out on the farm. In which we had a pop quiz. The quiz was to prepare a bed, by weeding, aerating, covering and watering. First we were assigned a bed at random. Then we were told we had about 40 minutes to complete preparation. My group first went to get tools and gloves. We weeded for the majority of the time, with a sickle and gloves, while carefully working around the already grow and very alive plants. Once we were done weeding we put them all into buckets to be weighed. After they were weighed and recorded they were put into the browns pile to be used as compost. After weeding, we used a U-Bar to aerate the soil, instead of doing a full double dig. Aerating is to open up the soil so when new plants are put into the ground they can grow as deep as they need to. Once the soil was aerated it was very vulnerable, which is why we then covered it with straw for protection. Lastly we watered the now prepared bed.

-Raya Corren