This was taken two weeks ago when I went out to do some weeding

 As many weeds as their were it didn't seem to hurt the plants too much .

 The swiss chard seemed to be the most affected by the weeds so we did some weeding around those first. If you look you can see them there in the middle of the picture.

 I found this little guy out in the plot munching away on some weed leaves.  I watched him for a while and he seemed to be more preoccupied with eating the weed leaves so I just let him be. Munch on little buddy, munch on.

 This is what it looked like after weeding.  Now you can see the chard.

 We were not  as concerned with the clover plant weeds because I had heard that the clovers put nitrogen back into the soil. So it was nice not to worry about those as much. 

 The side closest to the road  recovered some from the accidental herbicide spraying, but the plants were severely stunted. 

The different varieties are all growing at unique rates an our kale looked ready to harvest so last we we harvested it as well, we took measurements of the yield and hopefully will find a difference

Some beautiful purple bok choi

Russel cleaning the dirt off of our first harvest of bok choi.

One obstacle we have encountered is our 4th row on the post transplant fertilizer side of our plot has died.. the transplants never grew. Cornell said he thinks maybe they got hit with herbicide.

Above you can kind of see that there is not much of a difference of the growth between the two sides.Perhaps there will be a notable difference in the production weights.

Erin and our plants!

 This was from when the Swiss chard was planted.

 Weeds were starting to become a problem, but still manageable.

 They all were pretty well situated when we finished planting them.  We were careful not to water them with the hose pointed down because sometimes this can push the leaves into the dirt.

 Last week the weeds really started to become a problem. 

 

 As you can see they are starting to out compete the crops.

This Monday when we came out to the field it appeared that one of our rows near the road may have been sprayed with herbicide.  Hopefully our plants will be able to withstand the attack but we will see.