Harvest (3)

Harvest Swiss chard ( We picked up the bottom leaves of the plants to help them grow better).

Harvest Swiss chard.

The leaves of  mustard, kale and arugula  from both side( one intercropped with rye and  the other with mulch)  of our plots.

Enjoy the smell of autumn and the smell of harvest.

Weigh the mustard form the plots intercropped with rye.

Our First Harvest (Part 2)

Our group with our first harvest! Ready to make a salad

 Kale harvest

 Rye did a pretty good job to stop competition from weeds

 Unusual yellowish color for Mustard (Possibly this is a specific trait from the cultivar we used)

 Yellowish Mustard

 Yanlin and Deedee harvest Kale

 Our output from our first harvest! =)

Each group member got to take a home a diverse mix of leafy greens from our plot

First Harvest

 Deedee, William, and Yanlin harvesting Mustard

 Carrots (that were grown in our extra bed) starting to peak through the soil

 William harvesting Kale

 Deedee with Mustard

 William harvesting Kale

The four rows that we used straw mulch instead of Rye got more weeds and required more hand-weeding

Weeding

The bottom leaves of  some mustard have already turned into yellow . So it's time to harvest.

There were damages in some spinach plants. May be  they need some fertilizer.

The rye between the vegetable rows grew vigorously.

The flowers in the edge of the plot made our garden looks more beautiful.

The kales looks good without the competitence from the weeds after hand weeding.

One part of the plot  (4 rows ) was with the rye.

The other part ( 4rows ) was with straw mulch. 

First Harvesting of Mustard

Our garden got pretty weedy but our crops are making great progress

The side with the living mulch is less weedy than the side with the straw mulch

Photo of our plot

We had an extra bed so Dr. Zhao allowed us to grow carrots!

Deedee with some beautiful greens

Mustard on the scale after our first harvest

Weeding Our Garden

Spencer hand-weeding in the garden

Our Mustard made great progress!

Another picture of mustard

The rye just began to grow in the walkways

Our full plot and experiment

Beds with the living mulch (Rye)

Making Beds and Transporting Crops

Four beds that will receive the living mulch

Four beds that will receive the straw mulch

Beds being dug out

8 beautiful beds