Gardening Update - 28 Days

Posted by Paola and Alex

Yesterday, we transplanted some of our plants. We used a garden kit. It came with a large box, volcanic ash, plant food, and a hollow pipe to water the plants.

This is how the inside of the planter box looks like.

Alex and I poured the soil into the large planter box. 

We also had to pour volcanic ash over the soil. It gives the plants more calcium.

Next, we poured more soil into the box so it was filled near to the top. We dug a small canal in the middle of the box, and then I filled it with plant food.

Then, we covered the canal with soil, and started to transplant the plants. We put four tomatoes into the box. Then, we covered it with the black plastic sheet in the picture below.

I transplanted the lettuce we had bought from the store. I pulled them up from the middle, and then I put them in a hole which was in a bigger pot.

We don't think the beans will make it. We had learned that you should plant beans in a big pot to begin with. The are hard to transplant.

The strawberry plant is starting to get strawberries on it. At the end of next week we might get some red strawberries.

One of the buds on the pepper plant is starting to transform into a flower.

The most surprising thing that happened last week was seeing the pepper plants grow. Alex has nine peppers in his pot, and there is only one pepper in the green house. The pepper plants might have grown on day 26. Since we had almost given up hope, we didn't see them. We had realized the pepper plants on day 27.

Lastly, our experiments have grown. My plant has not went out of the ground yet, but Alex's has.

We will update you next week, bye!

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