--Started the day by packing 500 peat pots with top soil to get them ready for transplanting of the broccoli plants. Then Tim, Lucy and I transplanted, watered the broccoli in the peat pots to get them ready for panting.
--Lucy and I next project was to pick the remaining squash left in the patch before Tim was to follow and spray organic pesticide to kill off the remaining bugs. The bugs will tend to jump from patch to patch when the host has been picked clean and move onto new plants. So it is key to spray the organic pesticide to kill the pest before they are able to move onto the next patch.
--The patch is around 25’ x 50’. We each took rows and went through the patch and harvested the remaining squash and then brought them to the barn to be washed and separated into the good ones and the bad ones/ too big/ rotten ones.
** The bad ones are later fed to pounder the pig. There is a neighbor organic animal farm.
We then measured the good squash and separated them into 20-pound boxes.
--Next I did a little weed eating of the zucchini patch and tomato patch. They also are about 25’X 50’. I did the weed eating between each of the rows that there were no black plastic laid and weeds tend to grow.
--Tim and I then walked the rows of the zucchini to check on how the plants were growing. We found a couple of great looking zucchini that were ready to be harvested. Zucchini tends to take off so in the next week or so we will probably harvest the rest of the field.
--LUNCH: Ham and Turkey Sandwich with potatoes chips. Fresh Cantaloupe from the field to add.
--To finish the day Tim and I fertilized and watered the tomatoe plant field. This is done through a drip irrigation line that is laid under the black plastic. We mixed a batch of fish sauce and added a little water to dilute it to about 100 to 1 and hook it up to the drip irrigation to irrigate. They are usually watered for about 4 hours or until nice and wet around the plants.
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