Another exciting day in the garden! Things are starting to look up, and by look up I mean grow up. The eggplants are starting to look really good and happy along with the squash. However some bugs are getting hungry and eating up my leaves and I do not appreciate it! So today I sprayed some bug killer on the leaves! Some other new happening in the garden are the emergence of the carrots. They are so picturesque. Another new addition to the garden happened today in the form of 48 new pea plants.
In class today we discussed the different ways the Florida climate can affect plants and crops here. Florida has very consistent day lengths since we are closer to the equator. Florida also is close to zero elevation meaning that we do not get very extreme weather. Winds are usually calmer, it does not get to cold, and we have a lot of moisture. Also we get a lot of precipitation to go along with "the sunshine state." Both of these factors are great since plants need sunlight and water to grow! We are able to avoid many of the extremes that other locations have to deal with like long days or nights, high winds, high elevation, severe droughts, extreme cold, high heat with low humidity. Florida has great factors for plant and crop growth! Even with all of this irrigation is still needed though, but to a lesser extent than in other places. Usually sprinklers are used here since they can cover a wide range in a relatively cost effective way. Other forms of irrigation are not as useful here like furrow flooding since the water would sink straight into our sandy earth.
Yay cimate!
Yeah I realized that was not a carrot... It was a weed... oops
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