God’s FFA (Garden Project)
No, this isn't the sweet corn plot we were expecting to have this year. The entire “grass” area north of the New Opportunity buildings was treated with crabgrass killer. That area included the plot staked off for the corn plot. However, this treatment was not supposed to include the corn plot, and we were unaware of the treatment until we investigated why the corn was not coming up. We discovered that the corn that was planted did germinate but died as soon as the roots absorbed the crabgrass killer. So…plan B was to plant pumpkin seeds in peat pots, mound hills with compost, and then plant the peat pots with pumpkin seedlings. Since pumpkins are in the broad leaf family, they were able to survive and are doing well. The second donation of sweet corn seed was planted in the original large garden plot (southwest of the New Opportunity buildings), where the pumpkins were grown last year, and in plots at the community garden that were still available.
