August 20, 2009

-- Started day by transplanting 950 collards and 50 broccoli plants into peat pots to get ready and plant them in the fields. Following this we irrigated each tray of 50 peat pots by submerging them in a mixture of fish sauce (grinded up fish for fertilization) and water. Let them soak until water was seeping through the topsoil of each plant. Left them in the greenhouse to grow a little bigger before planting.
-- Growing cantaloupes inside a deer fence, and on black plastic with drip irrigation

We picked the first two ripe cantaloupes. There were two more cantaloupes eaten by some type of animal. Below is a picture of a soon to be ripe cantaloupe.