With all of our crops planted, our primary concern has now been maintaining the health of our plants. This means continuing to trellis plants to keep their fruit off the ground, spraying pesticides to deter caterpillars from eating the leaves of our plants, and removing infected plants to prevent the spread of disease. Several of our plants have also been producing harvest, so we've been able to take home fresh vegetables!
Our row of sunflowers has been a hub for beneficial insects. There are always bees and butterflies all over the flowers.
Bees and butterflies aid in the pollination of our plants, which is necessary for them to produce fruit.
Our red cabbages have begun to form small heads, which should quickly enlarge in these next couple weeks as long as we keep providing the necessary nutrients. The cabbages, pac choi, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, and bush beans have been the primary target of leaf-munching caterpillars. This week, we applied both spinosad and BT to these plants to deter them.
Our cucumber plants have been growing ridiculously fast, and have begun to produce pretty sizeable fruits. This week, we were able to harvest 3 cucumbers, which in total, weighed 0.5 lbs.
Our eggplants have begun to flower, and should begin producing fruit very soon.
We also saw several flowers on our bush beans. The insects that our sunflowers have been attracting should quickly pollinate these flowers, as they are right adjacent to the row of sunflowers.
The plants in the low tunnel are doing great, and we have been continuously harvesting the older leaves from our pac choi and arugula. This week, we harvested 0.2 lbs of arugula, and 0.9 lbs of pac choi. Doing this promotes the growth of newer leaves, increasing the size of our total harvest.
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