Initial Plant Research

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 NO_3-N dropped inversely. More than 70 % of total soluble-N in tomato plants is transported as NO_3-N.