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Pot B of our Potatoes
Look how big our potatoes are growing and these are not even the main crop.
Will we win this year P1/2/3?
You never know, judging by these potatoes!
Growing Potatoes
Over the next few months, P1/2/3 will be growing potatoes.
Miriam Doe came and taught us about growing potatoes and then helped us to plant them.
We have three bags to observe and measure over the next couple of months.
We are entering a competition to see who can grow the heaviest amount of potatoes too.
Gro
Things Look Promising!
We dug up Pot B today and yes there were potatoes- 29 small ones in total!
The plant was measured at 28cm. Hopefully we should have a good patch when we dig up are main bag just before term ends!
Tatty Tales
Today we had to earth up our potatoes because when we measured them they were 20cm tall. Most of us took turns to put some more soil on the potatoes. we earth them to protect from the frost and weeds.
We also dug up pot A to see the roots. There were no potatoes but there was hook forming which is a sign that potatoes would form.
Hopefully when we dig up Pot B there will be some small potatoes visible.
Tatty Tales
Today we looked at our potatoes to see how they are getting on after the holidays.
They are growing well.
Aiva measured our largest plant and it was 16cm tall and the smallest one was 10 cm.
Luckily P3 have been learning how to measure with centimetres and metres this week in Maths:)
Tatty Tales
Today the farmer John Ritchie came to our school and helped us plant our potatoes.
He told us all about growing potatoes and we were able to ask him a lot of questions.
We then went out and planted two of our potatoes in our grow bag. We weighed them first of all and we will compare this weight to our final crop. We have also planted potatoes in different pots, so we will see them at different stages of growth.
John also split the children into 2 teams and they will have their own competition to see whose potatoes grow the tallest.
Thanks to John for coming to our class and helping us plant our potatoes.
