Week 8: Post Hurricanes

 After our last post, we were luck enough to be hit with another hurricane.... yay. (This explains the two week break in the blog posts) Coming back after the hurricanes and getting our garden back to the way we wanted it was a huge challenge for us. Due to class schedules and the changing of professors, it took a few weeks to get everything back to an environment that our plants could thrive in. The first thing we noticed after the hurricanes was extremely high weed pressure, especially in our rows that had not yet been planted as well as the need for fertilizer and pest pressure on our plants which were already fruiting. Weed pressure pictured below. 


When we were able to have the time as a group to fully complete everything that needed to be done, we got started right away. We began by weeding the areas of the garden that were already planted and completely turned the soil of the areas that were not to ensure there was no longer any remaining disease pressure on our plants. Once everything was weeded, we went ahead and laid hay on the areas that we could and planted those that were not planted with radishes and arugula. 


(Look how much better !!!)

While at this point we still were not able to harvest anything from our garden, we did notice that some of our plants began flowering and fruiting! The tomatoes and cucumbers had the first fruit which we were excited about because cucumbers can be extremely difficult to take care of. There were also multiple flowers on both the pumpkins and peppers which we are very excited to see if they will turn into fruit!



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