Field and Garden Crops
Garden Management Log
If you are on garden duty this form is your homework. This form allows you to record all the work you did in the garden. The Garden Management Log is a spreadsheet of all the form entries allowing us to monitor changes and trends in the garden through time.
Hoop-house Management Log
Same deal as above but for the management of the hoop-house
Table of Contents
Spring Planting/Fall Harvest Crops
Can plant/harvest in summer
Peppers
Tomatoes
Beets
Summer Squash
Cucumbers
Need planted early
Potatoes
Carrots
Winter Squash/Pumpkins
Fall Planting/Fall Harvest Crops
Harvest before frost
Lettuce
Peas
Spinach
Sweet Corn
Last past frost
Radishes
Cabbage
Green Onion
Turnips
Kohlrabi
Perennial/Fall Harvest Crops
Apple
Fall Planting/Spring Harvest Crops
Winter Onion
Sun-choke (Jerusalem Artichoke)
Fall Planting/Summer Harvest
Garlic
Perennial Pruning (Winter)
Apple
Soil Science/Nutrient Management (Winter)
Soil types
Macronutrient Breakdown
pH
Soil testing/amendments
Crop rotation/cover-crops
Spring Planting/Spring Harvest Crops
Lettuce
Peas
Spinach
Radishes
Cabbage
Green Onion
Turnips
Kohlrabi
Spring Planting/ Summer/Fall Harvest Crops
Can plant/harvest in summer
Peppers
Tomatoes
Beets
Summer Squash
Cucumbers
Need planted early
Potatoes
Carrots
Winter Squash/Pumpkins
Long-term Goals
Restore the orchard to a productive state
The schools orchard is across the street from main campus. It has not been tended to for years and so is no longer productive. Our goal will be to tend to these trees to restore the orchards productivity for some tasty homegrown apples
Short term Tasks to Work Towards this Goal
Pruning - We will study when and how to prune fruit trees and how it can focus the energy of the tree into a few larger branches rather than many smaller ones resulting in greater production and a healthier over all tree.
Organic Pest Control - We will study types of pest control and determine what options best suit our situation
Fruit Culling - We will study how removing some fruit from a plant will result in better quality fruit and a healthier plant.
Ongoing - It will take years before the orchard will be established as productive and these steps will need to be repeated.
Erect the hoop-house
There is the frame for a hoop-house on campus though it is not currently set up. Our goal will be to make it functional inorder to extend the season of our garden crops.
Short term Tasks to Work Towards this Goal
Determine what needs Repaired or Replaced - The hoop-house has not been set up for a while and it is likely some of it's parts are in disrepair.
Restoration - Repair what needs repaired and acquire necessary replacement parts
Construction - build it.
Planting - Plant inside where the crops will be protected from the first few frosts.