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Activities, happenings, news, and other items of interest related to the Horticulture Technology Program in the Division of Natural Resources at Haywood Community College in Clyde, North Carolina. Come grow with us!

Friday, June 09, 2006

Vegetable Production and Garden Revitalization Underway

Students enrolled in George Thomas' AGR 263 Vegetable Production course have been hard at work trying out different production techniques. If you drive by you can really start to see some things happening out in the garden.
Some of the trial comparisons are readily apparent. Convential sweet corn (above left) growing beside organic/sustainable sweet corn being produced in three sisters fashion with marigolds thrown in as a biocontrol method.
Here is an overall view of the students' vegetable production so far.

...Also if you haven't been by the horticulture gardens recently the students enrolled in HOR 152 Horticultural Practices (also taught by George Thomas this summer) have been hard at work revitalizing the plantings and collections.

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