Week 5: Hurricane Helene!!
When we got out to the plot this Wednesday, it was pretty apparent that the weather was going to get very bad and we needed to prepare for it. We attempted to do all that we could before the weather was unsafe for us to be out there, there were no plant additions, which we initially planned on, to the lot this week because of the weather. Here's what some of our plants looked like before treating or preparing anything (cucumbers and corn). One of the first steps we took for hurricane preparation was putting hay down in a hope that it would create an extra barrier for high wind levels that are projected over the weekend. We only put the hay over our corn and pumpkin plants and are excited to see the difference in protection on these plants vs the others that do not have hay down. The reason we decided not to put hay down on other plants was because they were still so small that the hay would shade them from the sun, not allowing them to reach full growth potential. Our pumpkins, pi...