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               We worked on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Before starting work, the main observations I made were that the garden was looking particularly dry and was overgrown. It hadn't been raining lately, and apparently the assigned weeding wasn't being kept up in the long run. The weird, thorny, big weeds were growing back. They were pretty hard to uproot in the first place, so their reappearance was 100% negative. Individually, I weeded out a pretty big patch of soil using a hoe and a hand trowel. I also watered the garden. It was kind of hard to figure out how to hook up the hose. It took us a couple minutes to figure out. Finally, we gave up on the spray-control nozzle and just held the hose. At first, the technique to uproot weeds with the hoe wasn't very successful, but after a few tries, it worked just like we thought it would. As a group, Colin and I weeded and watered. We weeded behind the sunflowers and in the back of the garden behind the papaya trees. We also successfully watered all the plants in the garden. The next group definitely needs to keep weeding. They should also redo the covering tarp, seeing as the current one is not working. Colin and I would be able to oversee that project because it is our group's responsibility. The harvest can be used to make a salad, either fruit or traditional. We could also make tacos and use basil, chives, tomatoes, and lettuce as garnishes.