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Late blight on a tomato plant has been confirmed in Connecticut - horrors from last year! The garden where it was found is in Cheshire, which is known as the bedding capital of New England - the garden is surrounded by commercial nurseries who grow thousands of vegetable seedlings for stores and whatnot, so its a little different than growing a few plants in a community or backyard garden here. However! Here is the link to UNH Late Blight info (mostly for large scale farmers, but still good to know):
My name is Jasmine G. and I am a sophomore at RJLA. In my Sustainability class my fellow classmates and I have been working on food production and how it is processed. We are working with Ms. Jessica Hebert of Nippo Brook Farm in Barrington, NH. Ms. Hebert, is an organic farmer and has been contracted by the school to teach these practices to us. The project we are working on with her is focusing on the life cycle of a chicken. The first thing we did was monitor the eggs in an incubator for 21 days until they were ready to hatch. Last week they hatched! Out of all the eggs we had, only 3 hatched. Now that the chicks hatched we have been monitoring their growth.
I enjoy learning about where our food comes from and comparing it to our organic foods. I’ve learned a lot about how foods are handled from seed to plate. Working with these chicken’s I’m able to see how to raise a chicken responsibly and how these decisions help our environment and ourselves as well.
The Robert J. Lister Academy, simply put, is a place where “hope happens.” It offers a chance to help students graduate, by helping them work around and even remove obstacles in their way.
We are located at 35 Sherburne Road; many of you may know it as the old Sherburne School.
The garden project was a nice fit for us; it is an effort by both staff and students to commemorate Mrs. Carolyn Lilly, a former member of the Lister Academy family. It started as a shared effort to help make connections among people and has now grown into a gift for the entire community.
Kennebunk Farmers Market, Portsmouth Farmers' Market, & Newmarket Farmers' Markets tomorrow, plus greenhouse seedling sale at New Roots Farm and Open Farm Day at Hickory Hill Farm, Dover NH! May 15th is a busy day!
(Taken from Seacoast Eat Local Facebook page)
I've also have planted marigold, nasturtium and tomato seeds. I've been running lightbulbs for my seedlings, but I need a few of those "grow bulbs" for better results. Anyway, I'm having fun bringing my seedlings outside and back inside for the night. I thought I'd lost my watermelon seeds, because they were not sprouting. however, I was worried about overwatering them. Consequently, they were not able to sprout! I have to remember to treat seeds and established plants differently, eh?
My peapods will have to wait for a late summer planting for a possible fall crop. I waited too long this spring. I've never planted for a fall harvest before . . . maybe because in NH you really can't. I'll find out in no time, I'm sure.
I hope that today I can get some more soil and cups for another type of marigold seeds and also some jumbo sunflower seeds. If anyone would like some seeds, I have nasturtium, marigold and probably will have some sunflower seeds remaining. Give me a hollar ~
Thanks to neighbor Kelly, one of the group leaders from Timberland's Earth Day crew, we are now looking forward to some wonderful refreshment this summer!