Hiding from the Birds

It was discovered that birds were having a good time eating our new carrot seedlings that were starting to sprout. We decided that we had better get some cloth covers over the carrot beds, and also on top of the new lettuce plantings. 

A group worked on the lettuce beds to get the misters connected for the irrigation.

Here's one of the volunteers helping to connect the mister to the water pipe. He had to make a sharp 90 degree turn and use the rebar pole to fasten the hose around it for support.

Here is the canopy cover going up over the carrot beds.

Giving the Transplants a Blue Bath

The lettuce seedlings planted a few weeks ago started to sprout. Tonight's task was to fertilize the seed trays in a special blue potion known as 10-52-10 that helps promote root growth.

Here are all the lettuce varieties we planted along with some cabbage and Brussel sprouts.

One of our service missionary's granddaughter came to help out at the farm tonight. Together they helped fertilize all these veggies.

To make our special blue potion, we took one cup of this 10-52-10 fertilizer and placed it in another bucket.

The bucket was then filled with water.

And the fertilizer water was dumped into a shallow tray.

Elder Haynes provided instruction on how to properly fertilize the plants.

The trays were soaked for about a minute in the fertilizer.

And then they were set back out to dry.