Plant Update-May 11

Posted by Paola

We have finally gotten our first ripe tomatillo! When we get more we might make them into a stew or soup.

One of our tomatoes is starting to turn red!

Most of our tomato plants are a decent size.

Our biggest tomato plant already has buds on it.

We have a small jalenpeno on one of our plants.

Gardening Update - April 26th

Posted by Paola

This week was the first time we got more than than three ripe strawberries on our plant at a time.

The tomato plant we sprayed with lavender now has more tomatoes. We still haven't gotten a ripe one on it.

One of the tomato plants we planted as a seed is now very big.

We have a very big pepper on our pepper plant; but we are still waiting for it to get red.

Gardening Update - April 19th

Posted by Paola
We couldn't do much this week since it was raining hard almost all week.

One of the few changes we have seen this week were the buds on the jalapeno plants. We also have lots of red strawberries on our strawberry plant. We  found more buds on the tomatillo plant and the lettuces are bigger.

One of the most important changes in our garden is that our unhealthy tomato plant, thanks to some spraying with lavender oil, is healthy again. The leaves are turning green again. We also bought one more tomato plant.

Well, that is pretty much all. I will give you a post next week. Bye.

Gardening Update - April 12th

Posted by Paola

The most exciting thing that happened this week was getting our first ripe strawberry! Alex and I split it in half and tried it. It was delicious. 

On the weekend, we transplanted the tomato plants.

We had to cut open the plastic container that held the tomato plants.

Before we added soil to the boxes, we had to fill it with rocks so the water drains slower.

                             Both of our pepper plants have one large pepper on it. I can't wait until it is ripe.

                             We also planted some of the tomatoes and peppers in one pot. In the other pots, we    planted three tomatoes  next to each other.

                             The lettuce we bought at the store are very big now. 

                              We have two tomatillos on the tomatillo plant. Our jalepeno plants are a little bit bigger now. I can't wait until we can get a jalepeno pepper to eat.

Our parsley are a lot bigger now.

                    Our thyme is very delicious.  

           We also have a mint plant and the leaves smell good.

Our rosemary plant is one of my favorite herbs.

My favorite herb that I have tried is oregano. My family used rosemary, thyme, and oregano in the frittata we had for dinner last night.

Bye! We hope you come back and see our next gardening update.

Gardening Update April Fifth

Posted by Paola and Alex

During the last week we noticed many changes. 

One of our pepper plants has grown a pepper. I think it will be huge by next month.

We also have one tomato on our tomato plant.

There is a big strawberry on the strawberry plant. It looks like it is it's full size. I think it will just get redder by the week. 

We have seventeen strawberries on the strawberry plant! It also has one flower. There is one flower with no petals on the strawberry too. On Easter, I found a plastic egg in the strawberry plant.

Our newest strawberry has a strawberry on it. It also has two flowers with no petals, and one flower. 

The tomatillo has four flowers and two tomatillos on it. It also has nine buds.

Next week we will transplant some more of our tomatoes. Bye!
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Gardening 35 Days

Gardening 35 Days

Posted by Paola and Alex

On day thirty- five we bought a couple new plants!  We got a new strawberry plant, a mint plant, a tomatillo, and some jalapeno plants. The day's project was to transplant the new plants.

First we put some rocks in the bottom of the boxes. This helped with making the soil drain slower. 

Then, we filled the boxes with soil.

After that, Alex transplanted some of the jalapeno plants. He dug three evenly spaced  holes in a soil
box. Then, he pulled the jalapeno plants up by the middle and dropped them in a hole. Finally, he buried the roots and watered the plants.

I also helped with transplanting some of the jalapenos. 

When they were buried in the ground, I smoothened out the soil and watered the plants.

I planted the tomatillo in a planting box. I had to squeeze the roots to loosen them.

 Then, I placed the tomatillo  in the ground and pushed soil around it.

We also  got our first flower on the pepper plants!

There are thirteen strawberries on the the strawberry plant. All of them are green. We also have four flowers and one bud on the plant.

Most of the beans our dead. We are going to plant new ones in their places. Our seedlings in our miniature greenhouses are growing but they are not ready to be transplanted yet.

Check out our other posts about gardening:
Planting Seeds
Plant Update
Plant Update and New Experiement
Gardening -  Update - 28 Days

Our Museum

Posted by Paola and Alex
On Saturday the 13,  Alex and I had the grand opening of Al's Dino World The Natural History Museum. We even made a news paper about the grand opening. It was published on the Friday before the grand opening. We gave our family a tour around the small museum we made.

The Dilophosaurus was ten feet tall and who lived in the early Jurassic period. (a Dilophosaurus skull is on the left side.) The Utahraptor  was the size of and it lived in the early Cretaceous period. (Utahraptor claws and teeth are in the middle of the photo. Next to them is the hip bone of the Utahraptor.)

Below are Utahraptor skulls.

Utahraptor skulls are in the picture above.

Above are Utahraptor teeth.

Above are Utahraptor teeth, claws, and skulls.

In the picture above are Cynodont skulls. They are creatures that look like dogs. They were the first creatures to evolve hair.

Alex is showing our family the herbivore exhibit.

Qantassaurus lived in the early Cretaceous. It's skull is in the picture below.

The Protoceratops lived in the early Cretaceous period. The Protoceratops is to the hip of a human.

 The Allosaurus lived in the late Jurassic period. The dinosaur was about 16 ft. tall. We found it's skull.

The Giganotosaurus was twelve ft. tall. We found it's teeth and a part that goes under it's tail. 


The famous Tyrannosaurus Rex lived in the late Cretaceous. We found two of it's teeth.
Alex and I dug up rocks and pretended they were fossils.We found them all in our yard.