Week 5

On Tuesday, 22nd of October, our horticulture class did some indoor work. We spend the class making sunlight boxes for our onion sets. We did the following to make the boxes;

Construction:                      

The first thing we did was cut the cardboard boxes, so that the front was open and the sides were slanted.





Then we covered the entire front of the box with glue and cut some tin foil and covered the whole front and sides with it. This tin foil is used so that the sunlight bounces around the box and gets to every angle of the onion sets. 





When we finished making the sunlight boxes, we then started to make decomposable plant pots. We used three strips of newspaper per pot and one strip of masking tape. We used the end of a bottle as a mould to get the newspaper to stay round.

These boxes  and the pots with soil and more onion sets were then kept in the back of the science room in our school, as this classroom gets the most sunlight in the window which the onions sets need to grow.

We checked the onion sets a week on and seen progress, they were watered everyday and were in direct sunlight all day.