Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "science-experiments"
Experiment Time
Rain has returned to the Ozarks and most of my pumpkin vines love it. Yes, I did write vines.
There are volunteer Connecticut Field vines, sugar pie vines, Jack Be Little vines in a big pot, a Red Warty Thing vine and a giant pumpkin vine. These last two are not happy at the moment.
I forgot the Baby Bear that just came up in the garden.
Yes, I do like pumpkins. However this many vines is a bit of overkill. But they are necessary this summer as I try to complete The Pumpkin Project.
for the last week I've been measuring how fast two of the vines are growing. The sugar pie vine in the garden won handily over the Connecticut Field on the compost pile.
Not to be outdone the Connecticut Field has a pumpkin growing. This is the next target for measuring. Three different ways of measuring the pumpkin added together give an estimate of weight.
Next I move back inside to complete several Investigations of roots, stems and leaves. Unfortunately this means digging up one of the vines. The smallest, puniest one.
Microscope pictures are on the agenda as well. Plus more pictures of roots and leaves. Maybe next week. It takes a week to sprout pumpkin seeds.
In the meantime my page by page list of contents is up to page 138 with at least 60 pages to go.
I wonder if I can take a vacation once this is done.
There are volunteer Connecticut Field vines, sugar pie vines, Jack Be Little vines in a big pot, a Red Warty Thing vine and a giant pumpkin vine. These last two are not happy at the moment.
I forgot the Baby Bear that just came up in the garden.
Yes, I do like pumpkins. However this many vines is a bit of overkill. But they are necessary this summer as I try to complete The Pumpkin Project.
for the last week I've been measuring how fast two of the vines are growing. The sugar pie vine in the garden won handily over the Connecticut Field on the compost pile.
Not to be outdone the Connecticut Field has a pumpkin growing. This is the next target for measuring. Three different ways of measuring the pumpkin added together give an estimate of weight.
Next I move back inside to complete several Investigations of roots, stems and leaves. Unfortunately this means digging up one of the vines. The smallest, puniest one.
Microscope pictures are on the agenda as well. Plus more pictures of roots and leaves. Maybe next week. It takes a week to sprout pumpkin seeds.
In the meantime my page by page list of contents is up to page 138 with at least 60 pages to go.
I wonder if I can take a vacation once this is done.
