12/4-12/10
Well this is our last blog post - how exciting! We apologize for not making a blog post last week, but things have been pretty crazy with our schedules.
This week we collected our data to see if our experiment was successful. We wanted to see if intercropping mustard greens and collards would result in successful pest protection. Our results were inconclusive. There was minimal pest damage on all of our crops. This could be attributed to the small sample size (our plot was 15x30 ft and usually these experiments are done on a larger scale). Also, the whole teaching garden promotes such biodiversity that it could have had an effect on the pest pressure.
This week we also harvested our plants. We now happily have a ton of mustard and collard greens. We also dropped some of our veggies at the field and fork farm.
Well this is our last blog post - how exciting! We apologize for not making a blog post last week, but things have been pretty crazy with our schedules.
This week we collected our data to see if our experiment was successful. We wanted to see if intercropping mustard greens and collards would result in successful pest protection. Our results were inconclusive. There was minimal pest damage on all of our crops. This could be attributed to the small sample size (our plot was 15x30 ft and usually these experiments are done on a larger scale). Also, the whole teaching garden promotes such biodiversity that it could have had an effect on the pest pressure.
This week we also harvested our plants. We now happily have a ton of mustard and collard greens. We also dropped some of our veggies at the field and fork farm.
Annie and Tucker harvesting the collards
Annie happily sitting among the veggies
Tucker and Annie harvesting
Our plot in the process of harvesting
Annie showing the huge mustard green
One of our giant collards
Blaze picking some collards for the Field and Fork pantry
Our plants getting harvested
Blaze, Annie, and Tucker showing off the sizable harvest
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