Spring

Wednesday, March 20, marked the first day of spring. Therefore, the next day all students took the time and effort to plant starters in our one beds for the Spring growing season. Before planting, we all created a Spring Plan in which we wrote down the crops we planned to plant and calculated the expected pounds and calories we would yield from our crops when they become mature and ready to harvest. In my groups one bed, we planted lettuce and spinach in our available bed space which are good spring crops. Lettuce and Spinach are typically fragile crops that are not fit for growing during the winter and most often die during the winter season. Although, Spring brings a lot of precipitation as well as sunlight to provide great growing conditions for a lot of plants such as leafy greens such as lettuce and spinach. Our goal is to plant more of our planned crops to fill our bed and produce full potential yield. In addition to planting, many groups have been working on weeding their beds around their new plants to reduce the amount of competition between the weeds and the plants that are intended to grow and take in the soils nutrients. Fortunately, with it just being the beginning of the Spring season, there is expected to be a lot of sun as well as a good amount of rain which is overall beneficial for our plants growth and the farm in general.

- Alex Aguero