Week 11: Our final week, hits and misses (12/02)
This week is our final week of classes, so we went ahead and went out to the plot and did our final harvests and assessment of all of our crops, management methods, and experimental objectives. Here is how all of our crops performed. Cucumbers: Our cucumbers were arguably our biggest success! While we did have to replace some plants earlier on in the semester due to them being forced out by weed competition, the overall success of our cucumbers showed in our harvests. In the beginning of the semester when we noticed that they were not doing so well, we replaced the necessary plants, trellised them, hit them with fertilizer and extra water and they perked up immediately. From here on out, they were pretty smooth sailing. (Our cold burned cucumbers) Corn: The corn was the easiest to manage once it was in the ground and we never really had to touch it once planted. The corn that we had planted after the rest of it did not do as well but we think it was not given enough time to grow a...