Class beds

This week on the farm we continued to work on our class beds. These beds are much larger than our normal group beds and are shared with one other group. My group was assigned bed C4 north while another group worked on the south side of C4. At first, our bed was overgrown with bermudagrass as well as sunflowers and pumpkins, and there was even this really big pumpkin growing. We kept the big pumpkin for a while in our bed up until this week, but we had to pull the weeds and plants to make room for newer plants. Once our bed was plant free and aerated we began to lay down fertilizer. When our soil was ready we planted fava beans and onions watering them afterward. Furthermore, we laid down cardboard and wood chips in the pathways. --Rebecca