William's Pathfinder Blog

Flower Culture #6 and 7

2005-04-27T08:55:00.000-07:00

Today I pulled some more weeds. (We did not have much time today.)

My Tomatoes and Sweet Peas are doing well:
Roma Tomato

Sweet Pea and Grape Tomato

Flower Culture #10

2005-04-22T15:34:00.000-07:00

What is the purpose of a soil test?

A soil test helps you find the pH factor, which has to do with the chemical balance and the essential nutrients of your soil.

Flower Culture #9

2005-04-22T15:15:00.000-07:00

Identify three flowering plants adapted to each of the following conditions:

Full Sun: Bear's-Breech, Fern-leaved Yarrow, Common Yarrow
Partial Shade: Spark's Variety Monkshood, Spring Adonis, Japanese Pearly Everlasting
Well Drained Dirt: Bear's-Breech, Fern-leaved Yarrow, Japanese Pealy Everlasting
Wet dirt: Hollyhock, Columbine, Wormwood

Flower Culture #8

2005-04-22T14:48:00.000-07:00

Which three plant nutrients are most important to flowering plants?

Nitrogen makes the plant grow faster.
Phosphorus makes the plant more colorful.
Potassium helps protect plants from disease.

Flower Culture #7: Weekly Perennial Post

2005-04-21T13:16:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I helped pot/plant These three plants: Sea Thrift, Bleeding heart, and Lily of the Valley.
I also weeded the back deck with Beth.

Flower Culture #6: Weekly Flower Post

2005-04-21T12:52:00.000-07:00

As you can see my grape tomatoes:

And my roma tomates:

Are both doing well.

Flower Culture #5:Window Boxes

2005-04-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

Widow boxes can

Elevate your garden
Make your house look attractive
Give you a garden to care for upstairs
Blow beautiful sents to you when the wind blows and the window is open.

To build one you

Make a box that is big enough for your plants
Paint it with a couple layers of exterior-grade acrylic latex
Mount it on the wall of your house
plant plants

New link.

2005-04-13T07:35:00.000-07:00

I have a new blog and it is on my book list.

Flower Culture #4: Controlling Pests

2005-04-13T06:00:00.000-07:00

I have to list three pests and one way to control them (other than chemicals).

White Flies: Properly space plants so the air can move around them.
Cut Worms: Home made cardboard collars that are stapled at the sides.
Slugs and Snails: Circle the inside of the flower bed that is being attacked with rough sand, ashes, or ground limestone.

Flower Culture #7: Weekly Perennial Post

2005-04-12T09:53:00.000-07:00

Today I helped Beth weed and I watered the plants in the backyard. We really didn't have very much time.

Flower Culture #6: Weekly Flower Post

2005-04-12T09:35:00.000-07:00

A quite a few tomato plants have come up now, along with a few sweat peas.

My other tomatoes haven't come up yet but I am not suprised because my first tomatoes took a while to come up.

Flower Culture #3: drainage

2005-04-12T08:07:00.000-07:00

Sometimes plants need drainage to do well. From what I understand, if you have a flat layer of clay below your plants then when you water them the water will collect down at the bottom and you plants won't do well. So (I think) the solution is to lay a pipe or lay rocks in the bottom of the bed and fluff up the soil. Make sure the rocks or pipes are inclined in the direction you want it to go.

Flower Culture #2: Hotbeds and Coldframes

2005-04-11T11:37:00.000-07:00

Hotbeds and coldframes are boxes in which you would put plants that you want to prepare for the great outdoors. A hotbed has an electric wire running through it to keep the plants warm. However, a coldframe does not have this ability. For a coldframe you have to pile dirt or mulch around it. On both of them however when it gets hot you a have to open it a little ways. The hotter it is outside, more open it should be.

Flower Culture #6

2005-04-06T11:15:00.000-07:00

If you haven't noticed on Beth's blog we have to write about how our plants are doing.

If you look carefully it looks like my tomato plants are up.

We don't know what it is but it is growing among my newly planted tomatoes plants.

Union Level

2005-04-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

We now get to go to Michigan! We passed the Uion Level with flying colors. In the first half we didn't miss a single point. In the second half we missed seven. But we still set the score by actually winning. All of the other times so far we just got within 10%. I just hope that we can keep this up.

Conference Level

2005-04-01T06:10:00.000-08:00

I just realized that I haven't told you about the second level in Bible Bowl. We got to go on to the Third one and we have been studying like crazy. I have tons of resources to study from.

Fill in the blanks
A copy of the book of Acts in the New King James Version
Question answer cards
A DVD of the book of Acts in the New International Version ( Just so that I now what happens in the book better. Even though We are supposed to use the New King James Version)
A CD set of the entire Bible in the New King James Version
A set of outline cards
A stack of green cards with one verse on each card that I am supposed to put in order
A checklist of things that I am supposed to do
A huge pile of papers
And a set of headings to put the Green cards in

tomorrow Is the third level. If we can get past this one we will go to Michigan!

Flower Culture #6

2005-03-31T12:45:00.000-08:00

They still haven't come up. So mommy got me some more seeds. I now have sweet peas planted, Roma tomatos planted, and the posibility of Grape tomatos still to come up.

Flower Culture #6

2005-03-23T07:35:00.000-08:00

These are my plants. I am sad that They haven't come up yet. Mommy said that we might get some more. incase these don't work.

Flower Culture #6

2005-03-18T14:35:00.000-08:00

I have to "Prepare the soil, fertilize, plant, and grow to maturity three different kinds of annuals."

Last year I helped mother with her plants including: cantaloupe, impatience, and sunflower just to name a few.

This year I have my own hanging pot that I started myself. It now contains little seeds but later they will turn into Grape Tomato plants.

Mammal Honor: Item #9

2005-03-14T09:58:00.000-08:00

I have to write a story about "Wild mammals I have observed."

We go to a horse barn every Sunday and we help aunt DeDe do the chores. (She isn't really our aunt but we call her that.) We were taking the horses in one day for their supper and while getting the last two (I think it was Portent and Cowboy but I'm not sure) we saw a fox in the next pasture hopping a round. So we stopped the horses and looked at the fox. We saw it eating something but we don't know what it is. Finally portent got impatient and neighed loudly and scared the fox away.

Mammal Honor: Item 6, and 7

2005-03-11T12:13:00.000-08:00

I need to list four completely aquatic mammals and were they live. I also need to name the largest mammal, tell were it lives, how it feeds, and what it eats.

porpoises: from Siberia and Alaska to California
Bottle-nosed Dolphin: world-wide
Long snouted dolphin: rivers of South America
Blue Whale: circumpolar distribution. This animal also is the animal I need to fill out the seventh listing. I have already told you where it lives. It feeds with stands of straw like material called baleen. It takes a big gulp of water and the pushes the water Though the baleen sifting the water. In this way it gets only the plankton and krill that it eats.
I believe that I have now completed the things I have to do today for science class.

Mammal Honor: Item #5

2005-03-09T11:22:00.000-08:00

I have to: List four things mammals do that are harmful.
1.) steal
2.)kill
3.)bite
4.)mass- produce

Mammal Honor: Item #4

2005-03-08T13:49:00.000-08:00

I have to: List four beneficial mammal's and tell why they are beneficial
Cows: give us milk and most dairy products.
Dogs: help blind people, there are search dogs who search for people, animals, evidence and many other things.
Bats: keep the mosquito population down.
Horses give us a mode of transportation.

A poem I wrote

2005-03-04T12:35:00.000-08:00

A hope that never fades.
A light that never dims.
A trust that never fails.
A life that never ends.
All these I can find in Jesus Christ.

A sight that I never look away from.
A sound that is pleasant to hear.
A feeling that I'll never not touch.
A taste that stays in my mouth.
All these are given from Jesus Christ.

Area Bible Bowl

2005-02-06T14:26:00.000-08:00

Hi. William Here telling you that We won the Area Bible Bowl! We were a very happy team at the end. We didn't really win but we came in first place! And no that is not a type-o. If we come within 10% we share first place with the winners and get to go on to the next round. =)

This is our Pathfinder Team:
top left to right: Aaron, Carla, Jackie, Bobby, Mrs. Cruz.
bottom left to right:Beth, Samantha, Melinda, William (Me).

(I've got more honors on the way)