Window Farm

Our plants are growing well, last term compared to this term, we had a 10% growth increase

Our Window Farm is still strong

Our watering system has proved to be successful, we have a solar panel providing 24% of the power to the pump.

Abiotic fators - Window farm

We used a microscope to examine our soil and water that collected in our Window Farm, we saw no living organisms but remnants of roots. 

Above are the microscopes we used to examine our soil and water

The mixture of water and soil to be place on the microscope to be viewed.

Window Farm - Design

  

 

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Here is a link to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JteNQAnmGwg

Window Farm Plants Growth

A bar graph showing the comparison in plant heights between the three plants:
Series 1 - Rocket
Series 2 - Coriander
Series 3 - Fennel



A line graph showing the growth of our plants from the 6 March (The day the plants were planted) to the 18 March

The Growth of our three plants: Rocket, Coriander and Fennel

Reflections - Stocking of Plants and Window Farm

Our choice of plants was very clever in that we chose three different plants; Rocket, Coriander and Fennel. In the given environment of Lab B4 there are different abiotic factors which influence the growth of our plants, the one side of the lab receives a lot of sunlight and the other little sunlight. We chose the sunny side.

Our Window Farm is a sustainable farm in the window sill. If features a pump with complicated clear irrigation tubing running through the whole system to provide an effective watering system. The elegant design of securing the a water bottles from behind eliminates the chance of the bottles slipping down and provides a sturdier product.

My overall understanding for food security has grown over the past term, the window farm has taught me, we can introduce these effective farming methods which require limited space and are easy to build. Food security can be improved by growing plants which you can eat which we have done in our Window Farm

pH of our Soil Pictures

Using the Labdisc we measured the pH level of our soil and tap water of Lab B4

The pH probe in the soil to measure the pH we saw that our soil and water were both acidic and their results were very close.

Water Rentenion Capacity

Crucibles packed in a box just before they go off to be baked.

After the first bake in the oven the crucibles are measured.

After the second bake the crucibles were measured and the result was a loss in water