Team Cornies

This week our group did some weed maintenance as well as checked in to see how our crops were doing. We pruned some of the tomato plants as well as made some adjustments to our tomato twine to adjust for growth. We also were able to identify some different diseases and pests on our crops with the help of Zach. 

This week our garden is looking pretty lush as most of our crops begin to reach maturity. Our tomatoes are showing a lot of vegetative growth and are beginning to flower. One problem we did notice is that a lot of our okra seems to have leaf curl, however, this doesn't appear to have much of an effect on production. Week 9 shows a lot of production progress as we were able to harvest several more squash and a few okra. I am so happy to say that our hard work is paying off!

 Time flies and our squashes are growing quick! We did our first harvest today! Averie and Hilda harvested 11 yellow neck squash total and there are still a lot babies growing on the plants. Soon there will be more harvest. This week we also worked on weeding and scouting for pest and disease. 

Week 7 October 8th 2025 Noah Liss This week during lab we did A LOT of work for the upkeep of our plot. Our plants have reached the stage where we can start to see differences between our crops and different management strategies. However to begin let’s discuss the physical changes we made to our farm.   We started the day with weeding as we have done the past few weeks, especially between our broccoli and bunching onions and watermelon on the east side of our plot. These crops don’t have any mulching done to them so we have to just take the hoe and get to work. While some of us were weeding the other part of our group was assessing our west side of the plot where we have had more vegetative growth and looks overall greener, This can be due to our booming okra and squash with the large green leaves. A few things they noticed were what looks like leaf curling on some of the squash plants. This could be some type of pest or disease and will definitely be keeping an eye on it prior to...

           Week 6                    Today the group assessed how the hay was doing to mitigate the weeds in our plot, recognized the crop progression, and also noticed some leaf minor damage to the foliage on the summer squash. Although there was some damage, we were impressed how far along the summer squash is coming with nice big green leaves starting to really grow. We also noticed some unidentified damage to the corn foliage; suspecting the southern moth, or the corn ear worm for two possibilities of pests.  We then  weeded, and also coordinated as a team to delegate each weekly post for our plot. We noticed the most prominent weed was sedge, the hay seemed to not help as much as we thought to prevent sedge growth. The hybrid onion seems to be growing slower, but we as a group did not realize we needed multiple seeds in each trey hole when starting them in the greenhouse.  We also no...

 This week, we continued with the maintenance of our plot. We spent a considerable amount of time weeding by hand; some common weeds we noticed included nut sedge, oxalis, and pigweed (amaranth). We observed a pest issue on our corn the leaves were brown and mottled. Our group was not able to determine the cause of this issue this week but we plan on continuing to look into it.  Additionally, this week we tackled our second objective: different kinds of mulch around our tomatoes. The purpose of this experiment is determine how different kinds of mulch (hay or mulch) impact parameters such as weed density and crop vigor.   Lastly, we used the empty space at the north end of our plot to seed wildflowers. Some of the species we planted include marigolds, calendula, and coreopsis.