9/20!

Exciting News: Our Candy Corn Crop is Planted!





We’re super excited to share that we’ve just planted our candy corn crop! This fun addition will definitely add some creativity to our fall farm. Since we won’t be able to plant pumpkins during our time here, Mark came up with the awesome idea of growing candy corn instead.

We filled two-gallon containers with compost, pyrite, and soil to give our plants the best start. We’re placing these pots right into the ground, so when December hits, Mark can easily pull them out and take them home.

We have four candy corn plants growing alongside our cucumbers, adding a whimsical touch to our farm.




Here’s Reagan planting our cucumbers on the trellis! We’re putting these next to the tomatoes and in between the candy corn. We’re using two different kinds of cucumbers, some are transplants and some are from seed. It'll be interesting to see how they both grow!

We also plan to add our purple basil and marigolds in this area since they’ll help each other out as they grow.



https://youtu.be/NPBJ6bghZNU?si=fyzqi4njRNStOj1_

In the video, our three sisters intercrop is growing nicely, with strawberries visible on the right as small plants. In the background, the trellis supports our climbing tomatoes, alongside cucumbers making their way upward. This offers a snapshot of the early stages of our garden's growth.

We also have an update on our three sisters' crop, it’s doing awesome! All of our seeds have germinated, and we're now in the process of fertilizing. Nick has been busy adding fertilizer, compost, and mulch to help suppress weeds and give our corn the boost it needs. It took some careful math to determine how much we needed to buy and how to space it out for our crops, but it’s all coming together nicely!


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