Transplant Day

                                                 

In this picture we have our very own Ariel, Bryce, and Christian. They are hard at work weeding and transplanting. On the left we have a low-tunnel that regulates the heat for our cold crops like spinach, cabbage, and lettuce. These plants prefer cold soil temperatures so we wanted to get them out and growing so they could get established earlier and produce vegetables earlier.  

In this picture we have our lovely new seedlings. In this picture we have Basil, Hot peppers, and many more. We are excited about our new plants and can't wait to get them transplanted. For some reason our other hot peppers in the tray in the right center has no germination. We don't know why but we will give it one more week and keep you guys posted on if they grow. 

We added 1.9 lbs of 16% nitrogen conventional fertilizer (diamond R) to the single row of red cabbage and we added 3.0 lbs of diamond r fertilizer to the 3 rows of peppers and tomatoes. These measurements were made in an effort to give our plants 8-10% of their nitrogen requirement for the growing season. These fertilizers will hopefully help our plants grow better and taste better too! We used the helpful fertilizer calculator that Dr. Zhou provided for us. So Helpful! 

Look at our little seedlings. They finally emerged and we are so excited about our sugar snap peas. They are looking so great and we can't wait for them to grow. Our sugar snap peas are actually directly seeded which is when you plant the seed directly in the soil because harming the roots might cause too much damage. 

Our garden is coming along amazingly. Romaine calm in for the win. Our garden is bordered by sunflowers which is a great plant to support our crop and provide us with some protection against weeds. Our main weed protector is Buckwheat and Cereal rye. Buckwheat and Cereal rye are known for amazing properties like deterring pest and keeping weeds at bay. A cool fact is that Buckwheat actually reseeds itself. 

We hand weeded our mini farm today. Took a long time and effort. Big shout out to Romaine Calm! Our farm is coming along perfectly. Our plans for the future are to get the low tunnel up and running with more cool season veggies and get more of our germinated seeds in our very sandy soil. Hopefully next week we can come with more new plants we transplanted and bigger and better plants.