December Rain

Ellie A

5 period

As it is getting into the rainy season we have had to prepare our garden as well as suffer from the affects of the new conditions. The rainy conditions made our class unable to work in the garden during class so the following week was a huge surprise. My bed A9 suffered greatly from the first few days of rain. Our most important plant in the bed, beans, were covered in voles and died due to the great deal of distress. The reason this plant was so important is because it worked as a cover crop for our beets which before the rain were thriving. The voles swarmed the beets and beans so we are now in the process of cutting out all of the bean plants and removing the beets for the health of our garden. Our comp will increase greatly by the end of this week. Going into the second semester all of the classes beds are planning for the colder months. Growing plants that can survive and work well in the colder months are essential at the moment. The nice part about the winter crops is that many of them can survive without a lot of attention and added work that the fall/summer crops need. Over the next few weeks we will begin to plant our winter crops and seeds after our return from winter break.