Angel's Farm Reflection 20

Angel Arias              Silk Tree Farm Reflection                 5/30/12

Today what we did was mainly planting, since one thing that happens quite a bit on the farm is having not much space and too many plants to get in the ground. There are also so many tomatoes – seriously, there are a whole lot of tomatoes. Even ones that aren’t in the ground, there are just a whole bunch in seed trays that haven’t found room on the farm yet. Something that I think I remembered in my subconscious but didn’t actively think about was that tomatoes are staked up on something, like a wooden rod. It somehow slipped my mind, but I guess I forgot how tall and large tomato plants can grow to. The plants in the greenhouse, which are tomato plants and cucumbers (The cucumbers were not intentionally planted, they were planted because of the vegetable debris and material that was left in the compost) also need to be watered with vigilance since they don’t get any rainwater. There’s a small side-section on the farm which now has a bunch of tomatoes in it, which Tom cleared out and planted in since we had a large amount of tomatoes left. Surprisingly enough, the JobLot onions we planted are actually growing fairly well, which was especially surprising since they weren’t in very well condition and a few of them very rotted. But nonetheless, we decided to plant them with good hopes and see what would happen. This summarizes my day at Silk Tree Farm.