3 soils 3 seeds and window gardening

In this term in Food, we’ve been learning about farming, planting, and the production of food. We’ve also been reading about Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer who had a different mind about planting his crops compared to us modern day farmers. I agree with most of his ideas in "Four Principles of Natural Farming", but one that doesn't make a lot of sense to me is not having a fertilizer because I feel like when growing you should have at least something to protect your plants. Even though this is true I can relate with The first is principle that being no cultivation because there's no plowing or turning of the  soil because you can't really do that in a small container. For centuries, farmers have assumed We also watched a video about Ron Finley, a guerrilla gardener who planted his own gardens.One thing that he said is that, "can become a planter or gardener". I think when people will be planting in the future they should try to use symbiotic planting with corn, beans, and squash. This is because each of them all benefit each other. My blog is about 3 plants and how they will look different depending on what I put in each. In my orange cup, I have my good soil and my one bean sprout. In my white cup, I have a mix of the bad soil and fertilizer with one bean sprout. My green cup was only filled with the bad soil and one bean sprout. From Food class, we got to learn a lot about life and how we can plant a lot of different things together. For example, we got to go to Plant Chicago where we got to meet Rock and learn about plant farms. here we learned about how to use water, grow plants, and have fishes all going at the same time. This relates back to this project because they both have to do with growing plants and seeing how they'll do other things to grow around.

This experiment is about using three different soils to try and see different results from looking at the 3 soils. One with good soil, one with bad, and the other with a mix of fertilizer. The purpose of this is to see how the type of soil and product you use for your planting affect your plants. This experiment helps us to see how the conditions of planting can be seen in different ways. Here are my calculations:

	AREA	VOLUME	CALCULATIONS
Container #1	A =6.28in^2	V = 25.12 cubic in =  1.71 cup	A =3.14 x 2in ^2 V = 3.14 x 2in^2 2in
Container #2	A =6.28in^2	V = 25.12 cubic in = 1.71 cup	A =3.14 x 2in ^2 V = 3.14 x 2in^2 2in
Container #3	A =6.28in^2	V = 25.12 cubic in = 1.71 cup	A =3.14 x 2in ^2 V = 3.14 x 2in^2 2in

Picture of my plant pots:

Orange container: Good soil 
White container: Bad soil ( with fertilizer)
Green container: Bad soil

 

Now let's see what my final results were: