Week eight was spent caring for the field and collecting insect damage data. Looper damage in the cabbages began to disappear, only to be replaced by slug damage. Additionally, voles or some sort of ground rodents have begun to create hills throughout our field. Overall, the plants seemed to adapt well to the field and were beginning to put on size.
I also took time this week to repot all the remaining starts from our trial and separate them for different interested parties to plant in their own “baby trials”. I was able to supply Dr. Martha Rosemeyer, Dr. Sarah Williams, the Taste program community garden plot, Caleb Poppe, and the Organic Farm trays of starts that were left over from planting.
