Lavender (Preferably French):

I would like to grow lavender because I have always wanted to grow lavender at my house because it is one of my favorite scents and so I think that it would be a great addition to the HTHMA garden because it would add to the already overall pleasant environment with not only its nice smell, but its purple beauty as well.

- A flower

- Blooms year-round

- Can plant during any season

- Needs great drainage and a lot of sun

- DO NOT OVER WATER

- Harvesting season is during summer

- The amount you should water it is dependant off of the type of soil it is planted in

o 3 times more water if planted in Sandy than if planted in clay plant on raised mounds “of amended soil to assure sharp drainage”

- Little fertilizing is important because they are used to living in harsh environments

- Use “slow-release 14-14-14 granulated plant food” when starting out, but after that, only feed when they show signs of poor growth or yellowing

- Do not crowd lavenders because air to all sides helps prevent fungus problems

- Harvest when flowers are barely opening

- Shear whole plant back by one-third to one-half its size when its past its peak flowering

- Companion plants: any other heat tolerant plants that can the handle their “Mediterranean” style of care

Fun Fact: Lavender has a long history of healing and is used in medicine. (Stress reliever, pain killer, etc.)

Carrots (Preferably Purple Haze):

I would like to grow carrots because I found this interesting growing technique that I would really love to test and try out to see if it truly does have better results as it claims and it also involves creating a different form of irrigation that I think could be interesting to use. Not only am I curious to try this alternative planting style, but carrots are also my favorite vegetable to eat and I eat a lot of them so organically "home-grown" carrots are said to be even more sweet and tasty than the ones you would buy at a large chain grocery store.

- Plant Carrots in August in San Diego

- Best results if you grow carrots in a wine barrel

- Barrel should have four one-inch drainage holes drilled in the bottom

- At least 6 hours of sunlight each day, but the more the better

- Place four bricks under the barrel for drainage

- Can use commercial potting soil

- Use time-released fertilizer

- Make sure that the fertilizer is moist

- Seedlings should be planted about an inch to 1 ½ inches apart

- Water every two or three days

- Never let soil be dry

- Carrots store well if left in ground

- Harvest when needed

- Companion plants: alliums, rosemary, wormwood, sage, beans, flax

Fun Fact: Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food and were the first vegetable to be canned commercially.

Tomatoes (Preferably Sungold):

I would like to grow tomatoes mainly because they have recently become one of my favorite foods when I made it my new years resolution to eat more tomatoes because of their amazing health benefits. My newly-sparked interest in tomatoes makes me also curious about how to grow them on my own and if I were to grow tomatoes as my crop I and succeed, I would like to start growing them at home too.

- At least 7 hours of sun daily

- If soil is alkaline, pre-moistened peat moss is useful

- Add a time-release vegetable fertilizer

- At first, light watering once a day

- Use Bt to keep away tomato worms

- Companion plants: carrots, basil, chives, onions, garlic, borage, asparagus, marigold, and more

Fun Fact: Tomato leaves are actually toxic and their name comes from the Aztec “xitomatl,” which means “plump thing with a navel”.

Environmental Science Vocab

Herbicide- used to destroy unwanted vegetation, toxic to plants

Compost- decomposed organic material (EX: DNA and RNA after fungi etc. have processed/pooped it out

Wildlife- wild animals collectively

High Nitrogen Fertilizer- fertilizer that’s high in nitrogen (most common)

Horticulture- practice of garden cultivation/management

Hyphae- body part of fungus

Aphids- insects

Pesticides- a substance used for killing harmful insect or organisms

Insecticides- substance for killing insects

Fungicides- substance for killing fungus

Herbicides- substance for killing unwanted vegetation

Pest- unwanted organisms

Silviculture- the growing/cultivation of trees

Viniculture- wine agriculture

Agriculture- the science/practice of farming

Rototilling- tool that gets up everything/rips up old plants/mixes up dirt/soil

NPK- Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium

Cation- positively charged atom

Anion- negatively charged atom

Archaebacteria (kingdom)- similar to bacteria (size, simplicity) but different (molecular organization)

Eubacteria (kingdom)- a bacterium of a large group

Animals (kingdom)- a living organism that feeds on organic matter

Plants (kingdom)- living organisms that use sunlight as food

Fungi (kingdom)- organisms that feed on organic food

Protists (kingdom)- free-living organisms with diverse reproductive system

Micrometer- a measurement 1/1000m = 10^-3

Flora- plant life

Fauna- animal life

Protozoa- protists (single-celled organisms)

Nematodes- round worms, invertebrates (no spines)

Food Web- break down of who eats who (old lady poem)

Microanthropods- really small arthropod (invertrabrate animal with an exoskeleton)

Photosynthesis- the process by which plants create food from the sun

Exudates- secretion from plants to attract beneficials

Rizosphere- area around the roots to about 2mm respiration is opposite

Amoeba- a protozoa that forms temporary pseudopods for feeding

Paramecia (protists)- single-celled fresh water organisms

Flagellates (protists)- a protozoa that can swim

Ciliates (protists)- a single celled animal that has cilia

Microbes- a micro organism especially bacterium

Chemosynthesis- the synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical reactions

Wax + Wane- to process through phases

Fertilizer- a substance added to soil to increase fertility

Arthropods- invertebrate with jointed limbs and a segmented body

Aggregates- a whole formed by combining several elements

Fodder- dried hay or feed

Pathogen- a bacterium, virus, or other that can cause disease

Mycorrhizo(e)- a fungus that grows with the roots of a plant

Inhibitory- restriction of action

Streptomycin- an antibiotic produced by bacterium

Ammonium- a cation in solutions and salts derived from ammonia

Ecosystem- a biological community of interacting organisms

SENTENCES

1) The herbicides were used to get rid of the dandylions that were takeing over the rosebed

2) My family has started composting by putting our organic trash in a pile outside to be turned and watered.

3) The wildlife at the national animal reserve was very diverse in colors.

4) I need to go to the store to get come high nitrogen fertilizer for my home garden today.

5) We researched the benefits of horticulture and decided it would be the best decision for us to start our own garden.

6) We were studying bacteria and when we looked at them through the microscope, we saw the hyphae.

7) The aphids were eating the crops so we had to exterminate them.

8) Some people choose to buy organic produce because the loack of pesticides that are used.

9) The insecticides were used to get rid of the unwanted insects.

10) The fungicides were used to get rid of the unwanted funus.

11) The herbicide was used to get rid of the unwanted vegetation.

12) The farmer poisoned the gofers because he saw them as pests

13) I take part in silviculture because I feel that trees are very beneficial to the environment.

14) My uncle has a vineyard and takes part in viniculture.

15) Aggreculture is an impartant part of our economy because it is a huge aspect of the food industry which generates a laerge income.

16) The rototiller was used to dig up the crops.

17) Plants thrive on NPK.

18) Cations are positively charged atoms.

19) Anions ared negatively charged atoms.

20) Archaebacteria is near the bottem of the food web because of its small size.

21) Eubacteria is an important aspect of the food chain as well.

22) Some animals can be found at the zoo even though humans are also animals.

23) Plants are important to have around because of how they produce oxygen.

24) Fungai used to be considered as unwanted for a garden but it has since been discovered to be helpful to plants.

25) Protists are near the bottem of the food chain.

26) Micrometers are used as a unit of measurement.

27) The flora in the rainforest was extremely extensive.

28) The fauna at the desert was few and for between.

29) Protozoa have only one cell.

30) Nematodes ate Spongebobs pineapple house.

31) The food web organizes and lays out hwo eats who and in what order in the wild.

32) The exoskeletons on microanthropods play a vital to their survival.

33) Photosynthesis is what allows plants to get their energy.

34) The exudate from the plants is what makes it so that beneficial are attracted to them.

35) The rizosphere is located around the root.

36) The amoeba forms temporary pseudopods for feeding.

37) Paramecia are bacteria.