The following are projects to be undertaken during the 2011 growing season.

1. The effects of microbe containing amendments on vegetables will be determined. Manure will be applied uniformly to the soil. Three formulations of microbes, and a fourth treatment, a compost tea, will be added to the soil. The bell pepper, cv. Jupiter, the non-pungent jalapeño pepper, cv. Pace 105, the cucumber, cv. Dasher II, and the sweet corn, cv. Incredible, will be planted. Yields will be determined. This is the second year of the experiment.

2. The effects of sequential cropping with vegetable and non-vegetable crops will be examined. Manure will be applied uniformly to the soil. In the first crop in sequence bell peppers will be transplanted, and watermelon, sunflower and sweet sorghum will be established by seed. Second crops in sequence will be repeats of the first crop or one of the other of the three crops. Data on soil and tissue nutrients yields and efficacy of the cropping sequence will be determined.

The following are projects to be undertaken during the 2010 growing season.

1. The bell pepper cv. Jupiter and the non-pungent Jalapeño pepper cv. Pace 105 will be transplanted into beds receiving the recommended or twice the recommended rate of fertilizer. Plants will be irrigated at 10 AM or 2 PM either once (3”/application) or twice a week (1.5”/application). Yields will be determined. This is the second year of the experiment.

2. Manure will be applied uniformly to the soil. To the soil three formulations of microbes, and a fourth treatment, a compost tea, was added to the soil. The bell pepper, cv. Jupiter, the non-pungent jalapeño pepper, cv. Pace 105, the cucumber, cv. Dasher II, and the sweet corn, cv. Incredible, were planted. Yields will be determined.