May 25-30 - Planting Garden  In my garden i planted peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce,carrots broccoli,cauliflower,onions and some herbs. May 28 - My lettuce broccoli and cauliflower started to sprout. June 1-4 - Right now i am water everyday because of the heat, my cucumbers and tomatoes look a little dry but there doing good. so far my carrots or my onions have not sprouted. June 6-12 everything in my garden is starting to grow, my carrots are about 1/2 inch tall. My crookneck squash is almost 2 inches and my lettuce is about 2 1/2 inches tall.  June 15 - this is a picture of my cabbage,squash and my cucumbers, June 13-18 i discovered some little bugs called cucumber beetles, there are black and green with stripes on there back. they are eating my lettuce,squash and even my cucumber plants ! I hope we find out a way to get rid of them.  on the 27 we finally put some straw down on our gardens, to eliminate the bugs and the weeds. I am still watering everyday because of the 90 degree weather. June 30-July 9 This whole week we watered,weeded put more straw down and also put some horse tea fertilizer down on our gardens. We are watering also everyday because of the warm weather . Dean helped us make cucumber beetle traps they are yellow cups that attract the bugs so far they have been doing there job.  July-10-15 i watered twice this week on Monday I researched about doing a 4-h project for my presentation for the garden requirements July 16-23 i watered every other day to keep my plants alive we just put in our drip system and it toke a lot of work but i still need to work on a few more thing then ill be done with it. I have also figured out that my broccoli and my cauliflower seeds have not sprouted since i planted them. July 24-30 i put down more straw on my garden i finished that and now i am still watering and trying to keep the weeds down. july 31 -august 6 ive been trying to keep the weeds downs and still watering everyday august 6-13 katie and i went to the polk county fair and we presented our poster on Saturday we got a blue ribbon dean was very proud of us. Aug 13-Sep 4 I watered my garden weeded and also picked on picking days. Sept 6th -15th we rotor tilled hand picked weeds and picked produced weve been watering every wednesday and Sunday tomorrow is our last day.  Garden Results - Pre September Total Garden Production (lbs): ___17___
Result - MP - Met Plan Projection, OK - Grew OK, B - Grew Badly, N-No Germination Garden Results September Sept 22 - 13 LBS - Nice Cabbages Sept 29 - 18 LBS - More Cabbages October 6 - 23 LBS - More Cabbages! |