My Garden
Welcome back to my Blog. I’m back with another project, an AP (Action Project,) which is a project we do after every few weeks, where we bring all of the information from the unit into one big project. It’s usually a video, a presentation, or something else. We read Charles Darwins’ Struggle for Existence and a few chapters of the book One Straw Revolution from Masanobu Fukuoka. We also learned about the volumes of 3D shapes and symbiosis. We also tested soil using these soil testing kits. The project we’re doing right now is about a micro-garden, where we get to plant some seeds inside of a small pot and watch it grow. I just planted it, so nothing is grown right now, but here is a picture of it.
I decided to put the pot where I’m growing my seeds in the place in my home that gets the most amount of sunlight. It’s a square room surrounded by windows that has a perfect place to put my plant and always has sunlight. My family calls it the sunroom. Like I said in the intro, we did a soil test with the soil. We put 5c water and 1c soil in, mixed it up a lot, and then waited for the soil and water to settle, and come apart from each other. After waiting for a day, we separated the water and the soil and put the little potassium tablet inside, and waited for it to turn a certain color. It was supposed to be a light orange if there was a lot, and more of a dim orange if there wasn't. Mine was very dim, so there wasn't much in the soil I got.
For the second part of this project, we’re making a garden that we could make if we had the resources, so we drew an example of what we would do. Here is mine:
Companion plants are plants that are able to grow with each other, being able to use each other for positive reasons. The companion plants that chose were a few of my favorite vegetables. Asparagus, Carrot, Beans, Cucumber, Pumpkin, Corn, Spinach, Broccoli, and my absolute favorite, Potato. I placed them in 5 rows total, 1 going horizontal and 4 going diagonal. I chose these plants and put them in a specific order because they’re companion plants. I put asparagus and carrots in the same row, and in the second I put cucumber and beans, for the third I put corn and pumpkin, the fourth I put spinach and broccoli, and the final row at the bottom was all potatoes.
For this project, we got soil and seeds in the mail. We were supposed to measure the volume of the soil, so here it is. We got about 4 scoops of soil from a cup that is (roughly) a cylinder. The volume of a cylinder is v (volume) = π (pi) r^2 (radius) x h (height.) The measurements were: diameter of 4 inches and a height of 4.25 inches. Since there were 4 scoops, I had to multiply the volume total, which was 53.38 inches squared times four, which totaled to 213.52 inches squared.
After that, I had to measure the pot I was putting it inside. It was also a cylinder, so the same equation, v (volume) = π (pi) r^2 (radius) x h (height.) The pot’s diameter was 7 inches, and the height was 6.5 inches. I used the equation and got the answer of 250.15 inches squared.
I decided to put the pot where I’m growing my seeds in the place in my home that gets the most amount of sunlight. It’s a square room surrounded by windows that has a perfect place to put my plant and always has sunlight. My family calls it the sunroom. Like I said in the intro, we did a soil test with the soil. We put 5c water and 1c soil in, mixed it up a lot, and then waited for the soil and water to settle, and come apart from each other. After waiting for a day, we separated the water and the soil and put the little potassium tablet inside, and waited for it to turn a certain color. It was supposed to be a light orange if there was a lot, and more of a dim orange if there wasn't. Mine was very dim, so there wasn't much in the soil I got.
For the second part of this project, we’re making a garden that we could make if we had the resources, so we drew an example of what we would do. Here is mine:
For this project, we got soil and seeds in the mail. We were supposed to measure the volume of the soil, so here it is. We got about 4 scoops of soil from a cup that is (roughly) a cylinder. The volume of a cylinder is v (volume) = π (pi) r^2 (radius) x h (height.) The measurements were: diameter of 4 inches and a height of 4.25 inches. Since there were 4 scoops, I had to multiply the volume total, which was 53.38 inches squared times four, which totaled to 213.52 inches squared.
After that, I had to measure the pot I was putting it inside. It was also a cylinder, so the same equation, v (volume) = π (pi) r^2 (radius) x h (height.) The pot’s diameter was 7 inches, and the height was 6.5 inches. I used the equation and got the answer of 250.15 inches squared.
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