Week 9: Our Later Additions

We have touched on a lot of the crops we had planted from the start; however, throughout the year we had two hurricanes which threw a wrench in some of our original plans. Due to the storms coming, on the week we were going to direct seed some of our crops or move them from the green house, we had to wait so that they were not damaged by the weather and this was pushed backed even further when we found out about the second storm. Once the weather had cleared up and we were ready to plant some of our plots or move plants from the greenhouse, a lot of direct seed plants would take too long to grow for us to be able to have a full harvest. Because of all of this, our mapped out plan ended up looking like this:

Here are all of the changes we made and why we made them:
  • Snap/snow pea plot cut in half and the other half utilized for pumpkins - the pumpkins started taking over a large majority of the area surrounding our plot so we decided to give them half of this area to grow into to not disrupt any of the plots around us
  • Walking area - we needed an area to be able to access the crops we had planted closer together towards the bottom of our plot and we were already feeling like we took on more than we could handle, so we decided to lay hay down here to have an area to be able to easily walk through
  • Radishes and spinach - these areas were not planted prior to the storm so we had to plant crops that we could direct seed, were available to us, and would be ready on time 
  • Chinese cabbage and broccoli - we did not have enough Chinese cabbage plants survive in the greenhouse during the storms to fill the entirety of this plot so we back filled the rest of it with broccoli that was already in the greenhouse
We are very hopeful that all of these changes were the best decisions we could have made for our garden and are excited to see if our radishes and spinach will be successful!

                                                                     (Our Chinese cabbage!!)

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