E5G5-+Make+Project+Greenhouse+Documentation

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Documentation: Questions and Plant Comparison 5/7/09: We hope to get our project approved today. We made adjustments to our greenhouse idea so that we have plants not just in the greenhouse, but around it as well to hope to see the different growing rates. We think this will improve our project. 5/8/09 We got our goal accomplished today. We finally got our project approved. We learned that it takes a lot of detail to get our project approved. We have decided to add a sprinkler to our greenhouse and grow plants in the school garden as well as our greenhouse and compare their progress.

5/11/09: Today accomplished our goal by putting up our documentation space. We were just recently approved and will start by getting materials we need from Home Depot. We checked, and figured out that Home Depot provides everything that we need. We will start bringing money that we can give to a person to get the materials. 5/12/09 Today we mainly did research on materials. We searched for different plant to grow, then confirmed the type of pipe we will buy. We hope to know everything about our supplies by the end of the week.

5/15/09 Today we got our task completed. We compared the prices of flowers from different stores so that we can save money. We went to The Home Depot website and tried to find all of the materials we will need. We did and are going to go to Home Depot this weekend.



5/18/09 Our first step is to gather all of the materials needed for our sprinkler and our greenhouse. The second step is to build our greenhouse and then build our sprinkler. Our last step will be to grow flowers in our greenhouse and in the school garden and compare the resaults.



5/19/09

Here is a picture of what we are going to build. The site we got this from - []

The materials we need are-

A 6 1/2" Schedule 40 PVC Pipe 10' Plain End $1.25 $7.50 B 6 1/2" "T" Connector $0.30 $1.80 C 4 1/2" 90' Elbow $0.25 $1.00 D 0.5 10 Ft. x 25 Ft. Clear 6 Mil Consumer Sheeting $26.20 $13.10 (Enough to make 2 mini greenhouses)

Total cost comes to $23.40

Compared to this $286.67 green house. They are both bacicly the same thing.



Here is the link to this greenhouse - []

5/21/09 Our task is a little behind schedule. We planned on having all of our materials for our greenhouse and our sprinkler system in by Thursday but we wont have them in until Monday as it turns out. We realized that we had a little more research to do than we first expected. We will all put our money together and obtain the materials before Monday. Home Depot is where we plan to get all of our materials.



5/26/09 Today Paul's dad brought in the materials that we need to complete our greenhouse.



5/29/09 Today we finished the base for our greenhouse. We are having difficulty with our original schedule of finishing today, but we are pretty sure that we can get back on track. We changed our plan of adding a sprinkler. We realized that the part needed to connect the hose to the pipe was too expensive, and would take a long time to assemble. We think that our plants will grow well, espically the cucumbers, which are known to grow in only a matter of weeks. The website we visited ([]) suggests that we should put our plants in a greenhouse as soon as possible to maximize the growing rate. We made the mistake of poor planning. Instead of having our materials in by last week, we could not get them in until this week. We have learned from our mistake by thinking ahead for next time. For my next group project it would be a good idea to plan ahead and follow our timeline that we originally layed out for our Make project.

6/2/09 Today we finally put our plants in our greenhouse. We think we will have enough time for our plan to work, or atleast work enough to the point where we can see that our plants have made a good amount of progress. If we were to do this project all over again, there is a few things I would change. I would definetely get the materials earlier so that we could start building whenever we are ready, instead of waiting longer to see when we would need them. This would take extra time because we would have to go while we worked around everyone's after school schedule. We hope to see progress in our plants and hope to get a good comparison from the plants in the greenhouse to the plants not in the greenhouse.

6/5/09 The plants in our greenhouse did better than the plants outside of the greenhouse. Although both of our cucumber plants died, the one in the greenhouse survived longer. Both of our jalapeno plants are doing really well and seem to be very, very healthy. We think that our overall project will be sucessful and do as it was expected in our proposal. In other words, we will have grown plants in our greenhouse by the time we expected in our proposal.