Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Flower Culture #6 and 7

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

Friday, April 22, 2005

Flower Culture #10

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

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

Which three plant nutrients are most important to flowering plants?
  1. Nitrogen makes the plant grow faster.
  2. Phosphorus makes the plant more colorful.
  3. Potassium helps protect plants from disease.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Flower Culture #7: Weekly Perennial Post

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

As you can see my grape tomatoes:


And my roma tomates:


Are both doing well.

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Flower Culture #5:Window Boxes

Widow boxes can
  1. Elevate your garden
  2. Make your house look attractive
  3. Give you a garden to care for upstairs
  4. Blow beautiful sents to you when the wind blows and the window is open.
To build one you
  1. Make a box that is big enough for your plants
  2. Paint it with a couple layers of exterior-grade acrylic latex
  3. Mount it on the wall of your house
  4. plant plants

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

New link.

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

Flower Culture #4: Controlling Pests

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

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

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Flower Culture #7: Weekly Perennial Post

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

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

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.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Flower Culture #2: Hotbeds and Coldframes

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.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Flower Culture #6

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.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Union Level

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.

Friday, April 01, 2005

Conference Level

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.
  1. Fill in the blanks
  2. A copy of the book of Acts in the New King James Version
  3. Question answer cards
  4. 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)
  5. A CD set of the entire Bible in the New King James Version
  6. A set of outline cards
  7. A stack of green cards with one verse on each card that I am supposed to put in order
  8. A checklist of things that I am supposed to do
  9. A huge pile of papers
  10. 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!

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Flower Culture #6

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.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Flower Culture #6



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.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Flower Culture #6

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.

Monday, March 14, 2005

Mammal Honor: Item #9

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.

Friday, March 11, 2005

Mammal Honor: Item 6, and 7

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.

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Mammal Honor: Item #5

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

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Mammal Honor: Item #4

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.

Friday, March 04, 2005

A poem I wrote

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.

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Area Bible Bowl

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)

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Bible Bowl Rehearsal

We are participating in Bible Bowl and the first competition is this upcoming Sabbath.

Here we are having a pretend Bible Bowl. We won. However, our first opponents got more points in their Mock Bible Bowl.

We are the ones in the Pathfinder uniforms.