September 26th Update

Ryan is spraying our plants with BT to fix our farm plots’ pest issue. We have started to notice holes around the edges of our crops, especially our cucumbers. So, this spray is used to get rid of caterpillars which are eating through our crops. This will have a high chance of getting rid of these pests.

    

Here is a caterpillar that we found within one of our cucumber plants. It is easily able to be missed within the green foliage of the cucumber leaf. They like to hide within the new growth of the leaves, so we have started to check the inner leaves to start removing as many as we can first and then spray BT.

                                                                                                                                       

Ryan and Chris are pulling up weeds from the sides of our plots. We do not want them to compete with the resources needed for our food crops, therefore they will need to be removed. We will need to place more hay down around this part of the plot to shade them out.

Chris and Kiara are putting more hay over the cover crops and sides of the food crops. We want the hay to block out more of the weeds, so the cover crops have more capacity to grow. We hope the thick layer of hay will dampen the growth of these weeds.