First Plantings

This year we planted two tomato plants.  They were planted at the end of September.

Here is a pic of how they looked two weeks later. 

Hydroponics Follow Ups

The hydroponics experiment was great.  I remember when we started Mrs. Burkett told us about a really long time ago the people relied on hydroponics to eat.  And I found it quite interesting.  When we started to place the plants in we put cilantro,basil, parsley,and dill.  We put nutrients and a special type of water.It was really fun.  We also saw the dew form on the see through cones that was on the seeds.

Hydroponics are plants that grow without soil.  They grow with water, a specific nutrients and light.  We have to cut them sometimes but they almost always grow back. It had took them at least 5 days to grow.  Once they sprouted we were so happy!   In conclusion, this is part of the story of our hydroponics.

I remember the hydroponics,the plants were growing a lot,we planted a lot of basil. It took a lot time like 4 weeks and then then then they grew finally. We ate the basil with cream cheese and salsa with cilantro.

Hydroponics are plants that grow under lights but, they are in a machine that has holes and holds all of the nutrients the plants need.We planted Dill, basil and more. We put some of our plants in cream cheese then we put it on pretzels.

In class we have been growing hydroponics.  We are growing different herbs and testing them.  We had cream cheese and pretzels, salsa and chips using herbs .

Time to eat

A few days ago we cut our plants.  After lunch we had  cream cheese with our plants dill, thai basil and all those other ones. 

Eating!

We have cut the herbs and even tried a few:  Basil and Dill.
Check out our picks below to see how much they've grown.
We have also had to had water daily since last week.

We have Spouts!

We removed the domes on dill, Thai basil, cilantro, Genovese basil.
Our sprouts are measuring 1.5 inches, 1 inch, 1 inch and 1 inch.

Can't wait to see what happens next!

The Day We Planted

Hello!

The first thing we did was plug in our garden and start.
All the lights came on and then the screen asked us if we wanted to start a new garden and we did!
We took turns pouring distilled water until we hit the water line.
We then put our herb pods into the growing deck with a grow dome on top.
Lastly we added 2 capfuls of nutrients.

Spring Update!

Our original lettuce plantings, did not do so well being transported back and forth for school vacations.
We had one more pod that we used and that is doing very well!
We will be eating some very soon!