Little Berm: Big Harvest!

Today we harvested 4.2 lbs of mesculun, 1.4 lbs of spinach and one strange beet from the berm. Students brought everything home and I hope they enjoy it while its fresh!

Here are some pictures of the happy farmers:

We also took some notes on our radish experiment that hopes to test whether the PlanTone is effective.  We dug up two little one today for a baseline comparison.  The one on the left is the control.

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This is the attendance for the class: The first number is the number of absences and the second is the latenesses.

Dried Blood?

Well, we just planted our strawberries when we heard about the marauding squirrel problem. Turns out they ate all of the strawberry plants that another group recently planted.  We did a little research and we found that coyote urine works best as a deterrent.  Unfortunately, that is hard to find in NYC, so we decided to try Dried Blood.  We sprinkled it around our strawberry areas and now we are hoping for the best.  Here is the picture of the product.

I'll have to post the picture later as my internet connection seems to be having problems.

The brand is Espoma Organic Traditions if you would like to google it.

Science Illustrated Fertilizer Experiment

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Picture of our friendly farmers

Pictures for the 5/24

Students took out everything to mix with the brown leaves and the coffee grinds.

 Everyone got to help!

 The sweet peas are growing!...can you see the strawberries in the back?

Here is our latest crop of lettuce.

 The tomatoes are on the vine and we're just waiting for them to ripen!

 We plan to harvest the marjoram and chives on Thursday...research the recipes.

Homework assignment

On your blog:
Part 1:
Write a short two paragraph piece that incorporates the three
readings: If you are particularly interested in one side of this topic
you can choose to research further and have two or more other sources.
I think these are good jumping off points.

http://compost.css.cornell.edu/why.html
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/fundamentals/benefits_benefits.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2284361/

Part 2:
Seeds and Harvest: Write a short essay that summarizes the reading that includes three questions
Who ever finishes first and answers someone else's question (s) gets a
prize! (Think one less homework assignment, make up time, cookies, strawberries, letter of recommendation, etc.)