We have a seminar and midterm coming up so we focused on doing that in class on Monday and Tuesday. In the farm this week we got to add amendments to our beds. Last week we did squeeze, shake, and chemical tests using soil from our beds to determine how many lbs of amendment we had to add. After doing these tests and calculations, we determined that we had to add about 1.5-2 lbs of amendment. We used Phyto Grow which has Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium in it. I am really excited to see how this affects our plants and if they grow any stronger and faster than they were before. My one bed had a huge tomato plant in it and we decided to take it out today so that cleared up a ton of space in our bed. We also harvested a really nice rutabaga from our bed! Mr. Stewart really wanted us to use up all the bell bean seeds so we planted a lot of those in the space we had after taking out the tomato plant. Bell beans are about ½ inch thick so we planted them a ½ deep into the ground because you are supposed to plant seeds as deep as they are thick. I am in the watering group, so after planting the bell beans I watered a couple trees that border the farm and watered my bed a lot. It has been super hot lately so we are going to have to make sure our newly planted bell beans get enough water. It was a pretty great week in sust ag!
Grace Willens
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