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.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

The project thus far has been extremely promising. With the plants hardened by their time in front of the window with moderate amounts of stresses, including: full sunlight, higher temperatures, and wind, they were only recently added to the porch to grow indefinitely or to my liking. Some of the plants are having a rougher time than others. The garlic chives were limp during their first few days outside but have recently adjusted to the change. In general some of the plants' leaves have gotten a stringy yellowish hue to them now that they are outside. The watermelon have started to take off and have grown around 3 inches in the last few days.





















As you can see the plants I set out to grow have grown and shortly will be harvested for the herbs that I said I would use. The plan took very little effort as far as building it was concerned. It is very low maintenance, takes up very little space, and requires watering twice a day. Once at 5 in the morning, and anytime to my discretion AFTER the sun has gone down. Can someone Identify the plant in the rocks? I can't find anything on the interwebs.

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