Thursday May 19th- Here Comes the Sun

Like all the other mornings of the week of the 16th, this morning began with rain. Copious amounts of rain. Rain is annoying when you're in a classroom, looking out onto the dreary parking lot, hearing the splat cool water droplets on the window. It's much worse on the farm. The ground is super wet and your boots are constantly covered in mud. Rain is great for most farm plants, but we're trying to grow ginger from Hawaii. So we created a hoop house, a bunch of ceramic hoops covered in thick plastic. This should keep the plants drier and warmer. We used zip ties to secure the plastic to the hoops and then to the other sheets of plastic. By the time we were finished, we were thoroughly soaked. Luckily by the afternoon the sun began to peak through. We spent the rest of the day weeding a pea bed. That doesn't sound very intense, but I promise this pea bed seemed interminable. By the end of the day, as we finished the pea bed the sun finally came out for the first time in days. Finally we were not soaking wet and slogging through the mud every time we moved.