Week 4: 9/18/24

 With week four came more exciting additions to out plot! We started with adding a trellis for our cucumber plants. This trellis will allow the cucumbers to crawl up the metal and begin to grow high off the ground. Eventually, when the plants begin to fruit, it will keep the cucumbers up off the soil!



    We also spoke with Yosef who upon noticing we were missing some cucumbers on our plot gave us some "special cucumbers" that he had. We are so excited to see these cucumbers grow and how  they compare to the marketmore cucumbers we had already planted!



This week we also planted our first section of snow and snap peas. We direct planted these without soaking them first and intend to soak and plant some more next week and compare how they grow. In addition to this we also added beans between the pumpkins we previously planted and got both our carrot transplants and direct seeded carrots in the plot!


The peppers are in! We got our peppers planted and are so excited to see how they do. We planted jalapeno and banana peppers. They looked great coming out of the greenhouse and we hope they continue to show healthy growth. It will be interesting to see if there are any differences in growth and development between the two pepper types. 


Our tomato plants however, are a different story. While some of our plants are thriving others have been looking quite floppy. Some of our plants have been growing poorly and not keeping up with the other plants, such as the one pictured below. We have given these plants extra attention and made sure to fertilize and weed around all our tomatoes. We will continue to keep an eye on these plants and try to facilitate healthy growth.









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