A while back I posted about planting the corn and soybeans together. The results are in: The soybean on the right was intercropped between rows of corn. The corn shaded out the beans as it grew, making the plant more stressed, less bushy, and less productive. The soybean on the left, planted in a sunny patch free of corn, did [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Chain of bees
This is a cool photo showing the bees on a drone frame. See that long string of bees? They are chaining, which is how they determine how best to build a comb. This is the drone frame, the only frame that we use that doesn’t have pre-built foundation. The bees will build comb with drone-size cells (you can see [...]
What’s for dinner: sweet little cucumbers
We’re harvesting from the garden practically every day now. Cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, edamame, and a small army of pattypan squash—they’re all on the table. There is the occasional letdown. But so much else makes up for it! For instance, these cucumbers. I picked little ones—about 4 inches long—from our ‘Diva’ vines, which test garden coordinator Johanna Silver has cleverly trained [...]
