Start with the bed rotation map and the growers’ sample notes. It is the source used to make a decision about whether the affected beds should be isolated before the next communal harvest; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the Deep Garden terraces beneath the south cistern.
The latest count is 54 beds showing the same pale edge on their leaves; the prior file listed 55. A field check has compared the written rule with the place where it is used. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: Growers see the pattern spreading along one trench; the garden office says the samples do not yet distinguish rot from mineral stress. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a faint ring on the underside of leaves nearest the shared watering trench.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. Runa Ash checked the bed rotation map and the growers’ sample notes against the field notes. The method is to separate available stock from stock that can reach a patient in time; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
Next: The soil readers will take paired samples from both sides of the trench. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
