Our water diversion plan worked ^_^
- We dug a pathway for the water according to our land gradient observations and it worked!
- The mound of soil that separates the garden plot from the water that falls off the roof of the shade structure is also perfectly effective.
- Plants can suffocate if they sit in a pond but our efforts kept them safe.
- If we dig toward that hole we can route the water into the ditch and reduce the flooding in the courtyard.
- Thank you all for your amazing teamwork and skills!
We just need to dig a bit further out;
there is a hole in the wall of the water routing ditch behind that tree stump:
When flowers are done doing their thing,
you can cut them off so new buds will have more energy to bloom
we have many more plants in a glorious state of emergence
- Thank you everyone who is helping with the planting and care of the seedlings.
- We are growing cool weather crops: peas, lettuce, squash, spinach, cucumber, beans.
- Plants that are cold tolerant and do not like the sun as much.
- The seedlings have been going outside during the day to get used to the desert weather since they started off in a cold lab and a sudden change in temperature or light exposure can be traumatic and lead to shock and death.
- The seedlings that were transplanted this week are doing very well; they went through a week of gradual exposure to the elements.
- They still needed to be sprayed with water in the afternoon to overcome the temperature shift.
- Looks like they are going to make it.
- The seedlings that were transplanted this week are doing very well; they went through a week of gradual exposure to the elements.
- We will have hoops around the garden plot with "plant blankets" in the winter.
- The plants do not have to be separated by species in the garden, they actually so very well in a diverse community.
- Some plants are skilled in nitrogen fixation and can help they neighbors have more access to ammonia, small amounts of this chemical help as a fertilizer
- Beans and squash are good friends, beans are legumes, legumes help with nitrogen fixation
- Squash, cucumber, and pumpkins look like trailing vines with big leaves, they require more nutrients than other plants and the produce big fruit, I say fruit even though some people call them vegetables because of the seed inside
- Carrots are roots
- Lettuce is the plant itself, before it blooms
- https://www.almanac.com/content/three-sisters-corn-bean-and-squash