This blog represents the work of students at the University of Alabama in New College 490: Organic Farming II. This semester, small groups of four students each will be designing and implementing urban gardens. These will be container gardens, and will include composting, and seed starting and transplanting. The groups will be updating this blog weekly, beginning February 24th.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Implementation day!




We decided to transplant our plants on Tuesday March 30th.  Everything went wonderfully.  We direct seeded radishes, peas, and okra in the back bed. Once the radishes are ready, there will be more than enough room for the okra to grow. The middle bed was our salad mix that came from Jean and Carol's.  In the front bed, we put broccoli and cauliflower(picture on the right).  Most of that, we transplanted, but some of the cauliflower we decided to direct seed.  At the last minute, we decided to make a wildflower garden in front of the house (bottom left picture).  We broke up the soil and direct seeded a number of butterfly attracting wildflowers.  The only challenges we faced were objects in the soil.  We found large cinder blocks, bricks, trash, and broken glass.  Also, the raised bed in the backyard is entirely clay.  We decided to direct seed sunflowers at a later date to break up the soil.  For now, we planted some cauliflower plants in it(top left picture).  

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