Team Cornies

 This past week we had to prepare for a freeze that was set to arrive on the 11th. Our farm manager has a cover for the plot so we went out and used cinder blocks to hold a sheet over the whole plot. Prior to placing the sheet we harvested as many of teh crops as possible. This included some squash and some corn. When we came back after the freeze it seems as though the sheet was able to break loose and some of our crop was exposed to the harsh freeze conditions. We removed the sheet to assess damage. A large portion of our tomatoes were damaged but photosynthetic tissue deeper in the canopy seemed to have survived. We pruned any dead tissues and cleaned up our plot. At this point only the tomatoes and Broccoli had any more crop to give so we left those to harvest later.

 This week we spotted disease on our okra and squash. In order to keep the uninfected squashes healthy, we removed the diseased squashes. However, the entire okra caught the disease by the leafhopper already so we are not trying to do anything with it.  The tomatoes are growing extensively! And we pruned them in order to have better fruit. We are foreseeing a freeze coming up next week but all our tomatoes are so small and green and not ready to harvest yet so we have to protect them during the frost and hopefully they can make it through the cold