Conclusion -Jessica

In the beginning of our experiment it started off by collecting soil from Madelyn’s garden. When collecting our soil, we tested the ph levels and learned that our soil needed an increase in nitrogen levels to help in the growth of our lettuce seeds which was the final part in our experiment. We had to brainstorm ways as a group on how to increase the nitrogen levels on our soils and as a group we decided to use tea which we researched and learned that it could help increase the levels. As we were doing this there was some factors we should have thought of before hand which were where to place the pots, How many days per week did we have to water the pots, the amount of water because it had to be evenly distributed, and even how much of soil and seeds we were adding per pot. There were some things such as the placement of the pots that we didn’t think thorough because we had left them in front of a cold window . There was also the Thanks Giving break that we took where we did not take the pots with us to water. Overall, This whole experiment was interesting to do and well worth our time because we learned how to manage our soil and in what ways we could make it better and how factors influence our growth of the lettuce and also how to deal and learn from our errors. When others do this with the soil, they should know exactly how much soil they are going to need and what resources are good for increasing their ph levels of the soil if needed.