Different+'Soil'+Types

Will a plant still grow regularly with grass, mulch, sand, and dirty water instead of normal soil? Paula- I think that the plant will grow best in mulch, because it is has lots of nutrients and is mainly consisted of other dead plants. And that the experiment with the worst results will be the experiment that has dirty water because it’s dirty, and will probably not have good nutrients for the plant to help it grow.
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Conor- I think mulch will work the best because mulch has lots of nutrients and I think that the water will take that nutrients and give the plant lots of that nutrients.I think the dirty water will do the worse because it wont have a large amount of nutrients.

Garret- I think that in will grow the best in mulch, because mulch has a comnanation of dirt and has lots of nutrients and i think that dirty water will do the worst because it does in the ocean and it has none of that and mulch also has lots of nutrients.

· 10 plastic cups · Measuring cups · Grass · Mulch · Sand · Dirty Water · Soil · 10 Tomato Seeds 1. Put equal amount (1 cup) of mulch, grass, sand, dirty water, and soil in 5 cups. 2. Put 1 tomato seed in each cup 4 cm deep. 3. Pour in 20 mL of water into each cup every day. 4. Label one cup Mulch, another cup Sand, another one Dirty water, a fourth one Grass, and the fifth cup Soil. 5. Observe and record results of experiments.
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// Responding – // The height that the plant will grow throughout the project. // Manipulated – // The “soil” that the plant will be growing in. // Controlled – // Amount of water going into each pot, the amount of light, the temperature, the type of seed, the amount of space, the kind of seed in each cup.
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LOGBOOK AND OBSERVATIONS

__Day 1 Friday October 2, 2009 Trial 1__ Today we planted our seeds, and started the experiment. We used 5 Styrofoam cups, and in one cup put in sand, another water with soap mixed in, a third soil, the fourth mulch from Clem’s Garden, and the fifth grass. We planted the seeds 4 cm deep in each cup and gave each one 20 mL of water. We will water it again on Monday morning.

__Day 2 Monday October 5, 2009 Trial 1__ Today we watered out plants, 20 mL each. The has been no sprout in any experiment yet (so that means 0 cm of growth), but hopefully there will be the next time we check in on our experiments.

__Day 3 Wednesday October 7, 2009 Trial 1__ We watered our plants 20 mL today, but since we haven’t seen growth for a while now, we’ve decided to water everyday and observe every second day instead. 0 cm of growth.

__Day 4 Monday October 19, 2009 Trial 1__ We haven’t been back in a while (10 days) and our plants haven’t been watered in 9 days. But grass grew 6 cm, Dirty water and sand didn’t grow. Mulch sprouted 2 cm. Normal soil 5 cm. All of them are dying and i dont think that any water is going to help so we are starting trial 2 soon.

TRIAL 2

__Day 1 Wednesday October 21, 2009 Trial 2__

Today we started our second trial. We replanted our seeds into new "soils" and watered each cup 20 mL.

__Day 2 Wednesday October 27, 2009 Trial 2__ Today we watered our plants 20 mL. Nothing has sprouted yet, but something probably will soon.

__Day 3 Monday November 1, 2009 Trial 2__ We watered our plants today, each 20 mL. The sand grew 6.5 cm and the mulch grew 21.5 cm. Everything else grew 0.0 cm  __Day 4 Thursday November 5, 2009 Trial 2__ The plants were watered 20 mL each today. We also took the measurements Mulch is 30cm and sand is 24cm and the rest is 0. the mulch has a bit lighter colour of leaves and a bit bigger but sand has darker and littler they both have 2 beans the mulch had a growth spert from 2 to 3 and the sand had one from 3 to 4.

__Day 5 Thursday November 13, 2009 Trial 2__ today we watered each plant with 20 ml of water. Sand is begging to die and we had to put a pencil crayon to hold it up. Mulch is still growing and the leaves are a yellowish green. all of the other plants have still not grown. Dirty water hasn't had any growth, but at the bottom the seed can be seen. The seed is bigger than before when we planted it, so that proves that yes, the plant has been growing.. VERY slowly. It also smells like a fish tank. In the grass cup, the grass is almost all yellow and dried up. At the bottom, yellow water can be seen. There is no growth, and the seed can't be seen. This cup smells like the wetlands, but much more disgusting.

__Day 6 Monday November 16, 2009 Trial 2__ today we water each plant with 30 ml of water sand is dead. we think this is because after the plant has grown it is no longer reciving enough nutrients. we think mulch is growing good because mulch provides allot of nutrients. Dirty waters seed had now floated to the top we think this is because it opened up. Dirt has still not grown and we don't think it will because i think it has not germinated or we forgot to plant it.
 * day || mulch || sand || grass || dirty water || soil ||
 * 1 || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 2 || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 3 || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 4 || 2.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 6.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 5.0 cm ||

TRIAL 2


 * day || mulch || sand || grass || dirty water || soil ||
 * 1 || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 2 || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 3 || 21.5 cm || 6.5 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 4 || 30 cm || 24 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 5 || 32.2 cm || 31 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||
 * 6 || 33.0 cm || 31 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm || 0.0 cm ||