Max's Reflection

Window Farm Design
I really like our window farm design. Our bigger bottles provide more space for our plants to grow in. With smaller bottles, the plants are more crammed sometimes even damaging the plants. We did not make any additional modifications to our window farm as everything is working just fine.

Our Plants
Our 3 plants are Basil, Coriander and Mint. I think that the basil and mint were good plants to grow but the coriander was not. The coriander was too fragile when put into the widow farm. This caused the stems to break eventually leaving the plant to die. The mint and basil are more tough. So not everything grew in our window farm. We found some tiny insects in our soil but they did not affect our plant growth. We found no bacteria or fungi surrounding our plants which was relieving. The only thing that did affect our plant growth was water and sunlight.

Influences
One of our influences was not watering the plants enough! This obviously killed the plants. I felt a bit sad seeing some of our plants completely dead after the holidays. The other one is watering our plants manually. I think that if you use a water pump, you spend just as much time watering your plants manually. Plus, you are using electricity!

Information that would have been helpful at the start
Amount of water for each plant-we found that basil needs more water than the coriander and mint. Our basil was lacking water but when we added a more adequate amount, there was a major change in growth before the holidays.

Light-the side that we put our window farm has buildings, which sometimes blocks the sun. The buildings mostly block the light in the morning and late afternoon. At around mid-day, the plants receive the most light. Light is highly important for plant growth. Putting the window farm on the other side of the classroom could have resulted better growth in plants.