Team Cornies

 This week we transplanted our 'Super Sweet' cherry tomatoes, scallions and watermelon into our garden. The corn, squash, and okra from last week appear to be adjusting well to their new home. We did see some weeds begin to pop up but we were quickly able to hoe them and add hay as a preventative measure. It was hard work but I'm sure it will be worth it in the long run.  Look at our little garden grow!

We are Cornies! This week we came up with our team name and that gonna be "Cornies" because we are growing the CORNS!  We spent some time to figure out the layout of our field, and mapped out how many rows we will be planting. Two weeks in and our crops in the greenhouse were growing quick. It's time to transplant them into the field. We used tape measure and string to keep our row neat and we planted the following things: Row 1: corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn squash  corn squash corn squash corn squash Row 2: okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra okra  We also updated our objectives into: 1. Differences between direct seeded and tranplanted Temptress corn 2. The effect on hay mulch vs wood chips mulch on Super Sweet Cherry Tomato 3. Intercropping of squash and corn vs mono-cropping of squash  

Today we finalized what we want to grow and started seeding at the greenhouse! Here are the crops that we seeded: crop variety quantity Broccoli ‘Emerald Crown’ 80 Corn 40 Cherry tomato ‘Super Sweet’ 40 Squash Yellow crewneck 40  Furthermore, this week we finalized our objectives:  Varying # fertilizer: corn Different kinds of mulch: tomato Intercropping: squash/corn