First harvest
Just in time for Thanksgiving!!

Oh hey carrots!

Here is a picture from when we first started mulching! After we placed wood chip mulch and hay, we really saw the plants sprout up since there was less weed competition.

Our intercropping spiral is really starting to take shape, here you see Swiss Chard, Kale, and Arugula! Also here you can really see the success of our roman in the bottom picture!

Things are looking good! Got some weeding done, as well our buckwheat is flowering!

The plots have been mulched with wood chips within the demonstration plots and hay between. Our buckwheat grew quickly and has begun flowering. Many transplants in the intercropped plots died so we planted a second wave of transplants. We have a pest problem, mostly affecting the Swiss Chard, so later this week a pepper extract pesticide will be applied to the plants. Overall the plants look great, especially the Romain Lettuce.

Our buckwheat is growing quickly and we had some carrots germinate that we had given up last month.

The transplants are looking good now, they have recovered from the stunting and have started to grow. We have been using about 1/2 tablespoon of the nature safe fertilizer on them every week and they seem to like it. We have been weeding once or twice a week but will be mulching with wood chips to help keep the weeds down. The plants seem to need extra water so a few times a week they get watered by hand. There have been fire ants all over our plot so we used some diatomaceous earth to deter them. Seems like a good start even though a little later than everyone else. With the temperatures still reaching the high seventies and low eighties our late plant time may give us an advantage. My hope is that once the lettuce is big enough to harvest it will have cooled down a little to slow the onset of bolting.