wed afternun/ june 8, 2011

Today at our farm....

- everything is growing very well they have grown very fast.
- i am very surprised with how much progress we have seen.
- today we had watered everything, even the beans at three 
 sisters. we had watered alot.............................. 
- we also have problems at the farm, and that problem is the
  bugs that get on our plants and we have to get rid of them
  right away.


 we had found Afits on our tamatos and we had slso see whiteflies.
 they are a bog problem and what we did to get rid of it was salp.
 we had used soap today to liminate the bugs. i think we had done this
 about a week ago and it still seamed that there were still lots of white-
 flies  on the plants, and so are Afits. i think we should clean it more often.


- we had also did more of the composting, we had added more
   leafs and more green stuff :)


  Info: it was 99 and now it 120
  Moisture- 80.9
  soil- 72.6

Today at Washington square park...

sunday/June 5

why we need bees: Every third bite of food you take, thank a bee or other pollinator.

Many people think of bees simply as a summertime nusance, but these small hard working insects aculally make it posible for many of your favoret food to reach your table. from apple to almonds to the pumkin in our pumkin pies, we have bees to thiank. conditions known as Colony Collapse disorder is cousing bee populations to plummet, which means these foods are also at risk. In United States along, more than 25 % of the managed honey bee populations to disappeared since 1990.

Bees are one of a myriad of other animals, including birds, bats, beetles, and butterflies, called pollinators tsansfer pollen and seeds from one flower to another, fertilizing the plant so it can gorw and produce food. cross pollination helps a least 30% of the worlds crops and 90% of our wild plants to thrive. with out bees to spread seeds, many plants including food crops would die off....

More than $15 billion a year in U.S crops are pollinated by bees, including apples, berries, cantaloups, cucumbers, alfalfa and almonds. U.S honey bees also produce about $150 million in honey annually. keeping bee poppulations safe is critical for keeping american tables stocked with high quality produce an our agriculture sector running smoothly..

Creating a three sister garden...

 

-Each native culture that grew the three sisters had a uniquw planting system.....!!!!!!!!!!!!

-It is an ancient method of gardening using an intercropping system which grows corn, beans, and squash crops simultaneously in the same growing area that is typically a rounded mound of soil, often called a hill.

Corn is the oldest sister. She stands tall in the center.

Squash is the next sister. She grows over the mound, protecting her sisters from weeds and shades the soil from the sun with her leaves, keeping it cool and moist.

Beans are the third sister. She climbs through squash and then up corn to bind all together as she reaches for the sun. Beans help keep the soil fertile by coverting the sun's energy into nitrogen filled nodules that grow on its roots. As beans grow they use the stored nitrogen as food.

-i have planted Gords, Winter Squash and Hutterite bean......

Todays farming ......

Today we did the experiment in nustrusum....No precipitate.

(nustrusum-no results, prespurus-was middum

 and the petesume was very law.......)

we had also used coffie on the plants......all the plants.

we watered our plants, and alos at the 3 sisters garden.....
plant teasue...#1 no potesum, had no effect.
Peper- high potesum

How can we lawer the PH?

-we also tested the soil...... the PH it was 7. we did it!!!!!!!

Composting:

we had used the middle one and the left one...

-the first one was 101.3 temp.

-the second one 101.7 temp.