What a difference a week makes.

I could hardly believe my eyes when I stopped by for a quick watering of the garden today.  This hot weather seems to be just what the plants needed to get a great start.  I almost believe I could watch them get bigger if I just stood there long enough.

There are a couple things to note this week. 
One is the lack of difference between the natural rainfall side and the side that gets extra help from the rain barrels  Aside from the lesser of number of plants that originally came up on the natural rainfall side,  all the plants seem to be growing at the same rate.

Another thing, was the lesson learned about the nature of corn.  While you can definitely tell it is corn now, because it is in the grass family, it looked a lot like the unwanted grass that was coming up in the garden, and some of the corn seedlings disappeared during the weeding. Some of the plants that got weeded were the plants that were flagged for data collection on the rain barrel side.  Luckily, there were two corn plants left, and they were newly flagged to become our data collection plants for the rest of the summer.
Speaking of weeds, they are doing great in this weather as well.  Looks like next weeks gardners will have some work cut out for them.

Lets not forget the beans and zucchini.  They both are doing great.  It looks like we may have some flowers on the plants to report in the near future and in no time at all we will be collecting our first harvest!! 
Exciting things happening in the New Century Garden. 
Fell free to stop by for yourself and see how the seeds the students planted are growing, growing, growing.