For the Propagation group, Nicole, Roberto, Daniel and I will continue to organize our seasonal seeds. We are planting lettuce, cauliflower, pumpkins, cabbage, etc., we plant the seeds at the depth of an inch to an inch and one half in order to have enough soil to cover the seeds. The seeds will be placed into small trays to protect the baby plants from bugs and birds, to allow them time to grow healthy and strong and allowing more control over the soil conditions such as sufficient moisture. Seeds usually start to germinate from one week to two weeks, the beginning of the plant pushes through the soil and towards the sun to get sun's energy. We need to water the plants daily and we will experiment with spaces of planting seeds and need to make a compost to enrich our soil in order to have healthy plants.
After an inch or two inches of growth, we will transplant it into the ground, which is by taking the plants out of pots and spread the roots out before we transplant them into our class garden bed. The root plants such as carrots, beans, radishes, etc. can be planted directly into the ground to let the roots sprout out in the soil.
For our presentation, we will teach the class about the propagation procedure of how to plant seeds, water properly,transplant, etc.
“Everyday, thousands of people die from lack of clean water.”
This fact struck me about our lack of clean water. I just can’t believe that thousands of people died because of the amount of chemicals that are being used into the making of products. Our products and other chemicals are being dumped into our rivers and lakes that are polluting our environment and killing living things.
From what I have learned from the past years about pollution, our water, our community and our earth is slowly dying. Throughout the globe, the third-world countries are struggling with water shortages because of their rapid economic growth of industrialization and urbanization. Poor countries have the lack of environmental protections for sewage, waste and other natural resources. They industrialized products using cheap labor and export to the United States. China is the world leader in manufacturing, but also the world's leader in pollution with very few controls of manufacturing waste. U.S. exports a large amount of E-Waste (Electronic Waste) to other Countries like China. China takes the electronic apart; they take what they can resell such as lead, brass and other precious metals and dump the rest in the rivers, lakes, oceans or whatever they dismantled them.
"China has some of the most extreme water shortages in the world. Of the 640 major cities in China, more than 300 face water shortages, with 100 facing severe scarcities."
I would like to grow pumpkins, tomatoes and corn because this season would be great for these vegetables to grow. These plants are healthy for our bodies with the a lot of nutrients, we can sell our vegetables to the community and can make many different meals from these delicious plants. My top two plants for fall would be pumpkins and tomatoes. These two plants can be grown in the summer or fall seasons. Yes these plants should be grown from seeds.
Pumpkins are vegetables. During the seed stage you can plant four to five pumpkins seeds in a circle form and should be spaced out. It needs six hours of sunlight and should be watered gently to avoid washing away the topsoil. It should take up to 7 to 14 days for the seed to open and sprout out of the soil. Within a day or two, the leaves should start to open and continue to germinate.
Pumpkins love to grow into vigorous vines and to spread out in the garden. One strand of vine can grow up to 30 feet and vines can be trained to not wrap around any living plants or any living objects. They are mostly planted at the edges of corn and bean patches. Straight corn stalks give the beans something to climb onto and pumpkin vines are trained to slither among the corn stalks. The huge leaves of the pumpkin sprout out covering the soil that holds down weeds and keeping the soil moist. Rich soil helps the pumpkins to grow from the needs of nutrients. In order to have a rich soil can be a compost, fertilizer or fish emulsion to the area. 80 to 90% of every pumpkin is water and has a built-in water-conservation system. To keep the soil moist, the best solution would be watering it at the root of the plant or drip systems. Native Americans use to dry the strips of pumpkins and wove them into the making of mats. They also used it for eating and sliced off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. In Ireland and Scotland, people used to make their scary looking Jack o’ lanterns out by the windows to scare the evil spirits away, from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed "Stingy Jack,"
Tomatoes are fruits and need lots of sun and the pH of the soil should be between 6.0 and 7.0. The soil needs to be well drained and to have a fertilizer or a compost to keep the soil rich. The temperature should be 55 degrees or higher.Space the plants 24 to 36 inches apart with rows at least 36 to 48 inches apart. You can start to plant tomato seeds in tray pots with an inch of topsoil and keep it to a constant temperature (seventy to eighty degrees). The hole for the seeds to grow should be an inch it has to grow tall and spread roots down into the soil. Leave it in pots in indoors for six to eight weeks. Once they sprout with two or three sets of leaves, transplant them into two or three inch-squared pots.Fertilize with a water-soluble fertilizer every 2 weeks from an amount of half strength to an increase amount of full strength for the next 6 weeks. Place a stake, tomato cage, or small trellis next to the plant. As it grows, wrap it with a soft twine to train the plant to grow along the stake. Adjust the tie during the stage of growth and take the tie off when it gets too restrictive. Keep it moist such as using drip irrigation.
The NPK ratio was established for different growing stages and the values for transported reduced-N in petiole sap increased from 18 % during the early vegetative stage to 32 % of total soluble-N during fruit ripening, and the fraction of NO3-N dropped inversely. More than 70 % of total soluble-N in tomato plants is transported as NO3-N.
I am curious about our natural resources and our earth because of the amount of chemicals that are being used to make man-made products. Different species are now becoming extinct because of chemicals and the lack of natural resources. It just hurt me to see our animals and other living things becoming extinct. Our community and I need to continue to recycle our own products and to buy natural resources instead of man-made products. There are so many natural resources that we can use as products. I would love to learn more about the making of natural resources and how I can create an impact on our community to make our community into a better place.
