bobm
Garden Master
Last Friday evening my wife and I were invited by 2 of our grandkids to attend their Magnet School open house in Oregon. I was chosen by my granddaughter ( she is my Doctor and practices medicine on me ) to go to her preschool kindergarden class. ( open house was for 1 1/2 hours in the evening) She showed us her paintings, alphabet, numbers, and her "reading" from a library book ... 30 pages of word for word by memory after teacher read this book for the first time that morning). Later the class performed 5 Christmas songs for everyone. My wife went to our grandson's 2nd grade class . He made a verbal presentation to everyone attending about their class horticulture project. 18 kids in his Science and Mathematics Magnet School Class. Each child planted beans in one gallon containers in the greenhouse, each container had soil from the school grounds the other had composted organic soil. No fertilizers were used. Each child cared for their own plants throughout the experiment from start to finish. Results : The organic bean plants were larger than the others, however, when both types of soil were washed away from the roots, the soil grown plants had much larger root systems, and when the bean pods were harvested and measured the soil grown plants had a yield of more beans and weighed more than the organic soil grown plants. His conclusion: if one was growing greens and food for eating the organic soil grown plants would produce the most edible foodstuff. If one was to grow seed or edible fruiting portions of the plant the regular soil plants would produce more. He did have specific numbers for the yields in his presentation , but my wife didn't remember them yesterday when she told me about the experiment project. Other projects involved, math., building projects, robots, electronic projects, etc. as well as the normal reading, writing, history, etc.. 
