Tasks:
· Meeting with Professors Watson, Tibbets, Sturgeon, and with Will, running down through our summer goals at the farm and potential for farmers market involvement.
· Blueberry patch: Cut alfalfa on perimeter of blueberry patch, watered blueberries, mulched blueberries with woodchips from the city, began tilling in alfalfa between blueberry rows.
· Made a watering plant and garden map
· covered peas because they were being eaten by rabbits
· Seed blocked: summer squash, winter squash, okra, gourds
· Sowed: green beans
· Planted: tomatoes! peppers, zinnias
· Packing up garden house materials and donating things
· Rough dug a small plot nearer to the apartments. Rough Digging: using a shovel to cut squares into sod, pulling of the sod to save any topsoil. Then added compost and minerals to plot.
Notes:
· Mulching: always always always do MORE rather than less. We didn’t mulch the blueberries think enough in many places, so will have to tap back into our city mulch resource down the line.
· Tomatoes: We spaced our tomatoes too close together. It didn’t seem like a problem at first, but once we put the cages on in week two, we realized that when the branches extend, we might not be able to walk easily through the rows. However, our tomato rows are beautifully spaced thanks to use of string-line and space markers! We carry a crate with line, sharpies, extra stakes (for measuring and labels), trowel, a hammer, and minerals which is helpful to have all we need for whatever we’re planting.