ag (1022) - Lettuce: environment

few things to continue from what we were doing last term.

planting windbreaks blocks plants from being damaged, eg snapped or fruit lost. windbreaks reduce loss of water through evaporation or transpiration.

planting windbreaks casts shadows that reduce light penetration (this can be bad)

high planting densities causes similar things, such as high humidity, which increases the chance of fungal disease.

we also talked about a few things about what we did in terms of the lettuce.

eg. we raised beds 1 week prior to transplanting to better drainage and grounding the roots. also, we put mushroom compost over it to increase soil strucutre, ability to hold water and add nutrients to the soil. this should have been done a month early to allow it to be worked into the soil with cultivation